Predictive transmission of digital content

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9826060-B1
Application number	US-201514624535-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Feb 17, 2015
Priority date	Feb 17, 2015
Publication date	Nov 21, 2017
Grant date	Nov 21, 2017

Abstract

A digital content provider is configured to identify, based at least in part on various customer user profiles, digital content that is to be pre-loaded onto one or more customer computing devices in advance of the digital content being available for at least one mode of consumption by the one or more computing devices. The digital content provider may use these user profiles, as well as other external information, to identify one or more customers that are to receive the digital content. Subsequently, the digital content provider may download the digital content onto each identified customer's one or more computing devices in advance of the at least one mode of consumption becoming available to the customers. Once the mode of consumption is made available, the digital content provider may enable the use of the pre-loaded digital content.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
determining, based at least in part on a user profile specifying a customer's digital content preferences, an economic measure associated with the digital content, and popularity of search queries by a plurality of customers satisfied by the digital content, digital content to be pre-loaded on a customer computing device, the digital content unavailable for at least one mode of consumption;
in advance of the at least one mode of consumption becoming available to the customer, downloading at least a portion of an encrypted copy of the digital content onto the customer computing device;
receiving, at a time after downloading the at least the portion of the encrypted copy of the digital content onto the customer computing device, from the customer computing device, a request to obtain one or more cryptographic keys usable to decrypt the encrypted digital content; and
as a result of the at least one mode of consumption becoming available to the customer, providing the one or more cryptographic keys to the customer computing device to enable the customer computing device to decrypt the downloaded at least the portion of the encrypted copy of the digital content.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the digital content to be pre-loaded on the customer computing device includes one or more digital content segments of a digital content series unconsumed in association with the user profile.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
determining, based at least in part on the user profile, one or more times when the customer computing device is not available; and
scheduling, in advance of the one or more times when the customer computing device is not available, downloading of the at least the portion of the encrypted copy of the digital content onto the customer computing device such that the at least the portion of the encrypted copy of the digital content is downloaded prior to the one or more times when the customer computing device is not available.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the at least the portion of the encrypted copy of the digital content is downloaded onto the customer computing device as a result of the customer computing device being subscribed to a broadcast channel through which the encrypted copy of the digital content is transmitted.

5. A system, comprising at least one computing device configured to implement one or more services, wherein the one or more services:
identify digital content to be downloaded on a customer computing device, based at least in part on a user profile for a customer, and popularity of search queries by a plurality of customers satisfied by the digital content, the digital content unavailable for at least one mode of consumption;
in advance of the at least one mode of consumption becoming available to the customer, download at least a portion of the digital content onto the customer computing device such that the customer computing device is unable to provide the digital content for consumption; and
as a result of the at least one mode of consumption becoming available to the customer, enable use of the downloaded at least the portion of the digital content through the customer computing device.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the one or more services are further configured to transmit, at a time after downloading the at least the portion of the digital content onto the customer computing device, one or more cryptographic keys to the customer computing device to enable decoding of the digital content and use of the downloaded at least the portion of the digital content.

7. The system of claim 5 , wherein the one or more services are further configured to:
in advance of the at least one mode of consumption becoming available to the customer and as a result of the customer computing device lacking storage capacity for at least a second portion of the digital content, download the at least the second portion of the digital content onto a proxy customer computing device;
notify the customer computing device that the second portion of the digital content is stored within the proxy customer computing device; and
as a result of the at least one mode of consumption becoming available to the customer, enable the customer computing device to access the proxy customer computing device to obtain the second portion of the digital content for use of the second portion of the digital content through the customer computing device.

8. The system of claim 5 , wherein the one or more services are further configured to:
identify, based at least in part on one or more travel itineraries specified within the user profile, one or more times when the customer computing device is not available; and
schedule, in advance of the one or more times when the customer computing device is not available, downloading of the at least the portion of the digital content onto the customer computing device.

9. The system of claim 5 , wherein the one or more services are further configured to, as a result of the downloaded at least the portion of the digital content being used through the customer computing device, stream a second portion of the digital content through the customer computing device.

10. The system of claim 5 , wherein the digital content to be downloaded onto the customer computing device includes one or more episodes of a digital content series unconsumed in association with the user profile.

11. The system of claim 5 , wherein the digital content to be downloaded onto the customer computing device includes pre-ordered digital content previously unreleased by a publisher of the digital content and unconsumed in association with the user profile.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon executable instructions that, if executed by one or more processors of a computer system, cause the computer system to at least:
select, based at least in part on user profiles for a plurality of customers specifying a customer's digital content preferences and an economic measure associated with the digital content including sales revenue associated with the digital content, and for particular digital content, a subset of the plurality of customers for which the digital content is to be downloaded onto customer computing devices of the subset of the plurality of customers, the digital content unavailable for at least one mode of consumption;
in advance of the at least one mode of consumption becoming available to the customer, download at least a portion of the digital content onto the customer computing devices of the subset of the plurality of customers such that the customer computing devices are unable to provide the digital content for consumption; and
as a result of the at least one mode of consumption becoming available to the subset, enable use of the downloaded at least the portion of the digital content through the customer computing devices of the subset.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the digital content to be downloaded onto the customer computing device includes one or more downloadable content segments of a digital content series unconsumed in association with the user profile.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the instructions further comprise instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computer system to, for at least one customer of the subset of the plurality of customers:
identify, based at least in part

Assignees

• Amazon Tech Inc

Inventors

• Johansson Jesper Mikael
• Rospo Stephen Barton
• Willeford James Cleveland

Classifications

• H04L67/306

  User profiles · CPC title

• H04L67/327 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/0428

  wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload · CPC title

• G06Q30/0635

  replenishment orders; recurring orders · CPC title

• H04L67/568

  Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching · CPC title