公开(公告)号：US10264304B2

公开(公告)日：2019-04-16

申请号：US15266539

申请日：2016-09-15

Applicant: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.

Inventor： Luan Le-Chau ,  Cuong T Ly ,  Raynold M. Kahn ,  Ranny Q. Sue ,  Kapil Chaudhry ,  Joel M. Pamplona

IPC: H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/61 ,  H04N21/6334

Abstract: A method of provisioning entitlement including: receiving within a headend and at a policy management module first conditions and rules for content from a service provider or a third party device; and generating, for a point of presence (POP) device of a customer, a policy for entitlement and usage of content (merged policy). The generating of the merged policy includes: merging conditions and rules of policies including the first conditions and rules to generate the merged policy based on a predetermined hierarchy of the policies. Rules and conditions of the merged policy are multi-dimensional to include customer, POP device, and provider dimensions; and generating a configuration file including conditions or condition based parameters. The method further includes: presenting an offer for the content to the customer via the POP device; receiving an acceptance of the offer from the POP device; and enforcing the merged policy according to the configuration file.

公开(公告)号：US10701422B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-30

申请号：US16260835

申请日：2019-01-29

Applicant: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.

Inventor： Luan Le-Chau ,  Cuong T Ly ,  Raynold M. Kahn ,  Ranny Q. Sue ,  Kapil Chaudhry ,  Joel M. Pamplona

IPC: H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/61 ,  H04N21/6334

Abstract: A method of provisioning entitlement including: receiving within a headend and at a policy management module first conditions and rules for content from a service provider or a third party device; and generating, for a point of presence (POP) device of a customer, a policy for entitlement and usage of content (merged policy). The generating of the merged policy includes: merging conditions and rules of policies including the first conditions and rules to generate the merged policy based on a predetermined hierarchy of the policies. Rules and conditions of the merged policy are multi-dimensional to include customer, POP device, and provider dimensions; and generating a configuration file including conditions or condition based parameters. The method further includes: presenting an offer for the content to the customer via the POP device; receiving an acceptance of the offer from the POP device; and enforcing the merged policy according to the configuration file.