公开(公告)号：US20090193479A1

公开(公告)日：2009-07-30

申请号：US12022792

申请日：2008-01-30

申请人： Jeffery Andrew Briller ,  William Pat Price ,  Timothy Elliott

发明人： Jeffery Andrew Briller ,  William Pat Price ,  Timothy Elliott

IPC分类号： H04N7/173

CPC分类号： G11B20/00086 ,  G11B20/00659 ,  G11B20/00797 ,  G11B20/0084 ,  G11B2220/2541 ,  G11B2220/2579

摘要： Digital content contained on physical media rented to a customer who fails to return said media once the rental term has expired. Date information encoded onto the media or encoded within the content is used to determine that the rental period has expired. If the media containing the expired content is residing in a media player, the user is notified through a plurality of notification schemes. Customers of expired digital content can also be notified if the media player is connected to the internet even if the media containing the content is not currently residing in the media player. This invention solves several problems currently effecting content rental services and allows the rental services to conserve costs normally associated with notifying customers that their rental has expired.

摘要翻译： 物理媒体中包含的数字内容出租给客户，一旦租赁期限届满，该客户将不能退回媒体。 使用编码到媒体上或在内容中编码的日期信息来确定租期是否已过期。 如果包含过期内容的媒体驻留在媒体播放器中，则通过多个通知方案通知用户。 如果媒体播放器连接到互联网，即使包含内容的媒体当前不在媒体播放器中，也可以通知已过期的数字内容的客户。 本发明解决了目前影响内容租赁服务的几个问题，并允许租赁服务节省通常与通知客户他们的租赁已经过期相关联的成本。