公开(公告)号：US09467726B1

公开(公告)日：2016-10-11

申请号：US14871835

申请日：2015-09-30

申请人： The DIRECTV Group, Inc.

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

IPC分类号： H04N7/173 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/458

CPC分类号： H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/2541 ,  H04N21/26225 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/6143 ,  H04N21/6193 ,  H04N21/6334

摘要： 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.

摘要翻译： 一种提供授权的方法，包括：在头端和策略管理模块中接收来自服务提供商或第三方设备的内容的第一条件和规则; 并为客户的存在点（POP）设备生成用于内容的授权和使用的策略（合并策略）。 合并策略的生成包括：合并条件和策略规则，包括基于策略的预定层次结构生成合并策略的第一条件和规则。 合并政策的规则和条件是多维的，包括客户，POP设备和提供商维度; 以及生成包括条件或条件的参数的配置文件。 该方法还包括：通过POP设备向客户呈现内容的提议; 接收来自POP设备的报价; 并根据配置文件执行合并策略。