Efficient authorization system for multi-channel broadcast program options
View Patent ↗A rapid authorization system ( 22 ) for subscriber programming authorization with high levels of security can include entitlement management messages ( 23 ) that direct fluctuation of an existing package with a communication structure that may involve a primary service directive indicator ( 3 ) that is altered, transformed, or fluctuated by a secondary service directive indicator ( 4 ) or more. Terse, high entropy directives and entitlement management messages can be transmitted and a multi-channel broadcast programming fluctuation processor ( 9 ) at a multi channel broadcast receiver ( 8 ) can act to achieve the proper authorization. A conditional access system can be provided through existing, even one-way or SSL, communication pathways with high levels of security. Large subscriber base a la carte options can be provided with rapid authorization that may include nonce programming collective storage ( 26 ) for use with a fluctuation entitlement management message transmission.
1. A method of providing numerous subscribers multi-channel broadcast program options comprising the steps of:
establishing a service transmission capability;
establishing a service receipt capability;
indicating a base subscription channel package;
indicating a subscriber channel fluctuation entitlement management message that contains less than an individual subscriber's total individual channel authorization information;
fluctuating said base subscription channel package by said subscriber channel fluctuation entitlement management message at said service receipt capability to create a multi-channel broadcast service subscriber composite;
authorizing total service based on said multi-channel broadcast service subscriber composite; and
presenting said service to a subscriber.
2. A method of providing numerous subscribers multi-channel broadcast program options as described in claim 1 wherein said step of fluctuating said base subscription channel package by said subscriber channel fluctuation entitlement management message to create a multi-channel broadcast service subscriber composite comprises the step of operating on said base subscription channel package by said subscriber channel fluctuation entitlement management message.
3. A method of providing numerous subscribers multi-channel broadcast program options as described in claim 1 wherein said step of fluctuating said base subscription channel package by said subscriber channel fluctuation entitlement management message to create a multi-channel broadcast service subscriber composite comprises the step of creating an accretion programming service composite.
4. A method of providing numerous subscribers multi-channel broadcast program options as described in claim 1 wherein said step of fluctuating said base subscription channel package by said subscriber channel fluctuation entitlement management message to create a multi-channel broadcast service subscriber composite comprises the step of creating a removal programming service composite.
5. A method of providing numerous subscribers multi-channel broadcast program options as described in claim 1 and further comprising said step of indicating at least one tertiary service directive, and wherein said step of fluctuating said base subscription channel package by said subscriber channel fluctuation entitlement management message to create a multi-channel broadcast service subscriber composite comprises the step of fluctuating said base subscription channel package by said tertiary service directive in addition to said subscriber channel fluctuation entitlement management message.
6. A method of providing numerous subscribers multi-channel broadcast program options as described in claim 1 and further comprising said step of establishing a multitude of fluctuation optimized package options.
7. A method of providing numerous subscribers multi-channel broadcast program options as described in claim 6 wherein said step of establishing a multitude of fluctuation optimized package options comprises the step of establishing at least one a la carte optimized package option.
8. A method of providing numerous subscribers multi-channel broadcast program options as described in claim 1 and further comprising said step of utilizing a close package in creating said service composite.
9. A method of providing numerous subscribers multi-channel broadcast program options as described in claim 8 and further comprising the step of determining a close package at a communication headend.
10. A method of providing numerous subscribers multi-channel broadcast program options as described in claim 9 wherein said step of fluctuating said base subscription channel package by said subscriber channel fluctuation entitlement management message to create a multi-channel broadcast service subscriber composite comprises the step of executing programmed functions at a said receipt capability.
11. A method of providing numerous subscribers multi-channel broadcast program options as described in claim 1 and further comprising the step of ubiquitously offering a large communication capacity of programming options to recipients.
12. A method of providing numerous subscribers multi-channel broadcast program options as described in claim 11 wherein said step of ubiquitously offering a large communication capacity of programming options to recipients comprises the step of offering alternative programming options selected from a group consisting of:
offering at least about ten different alternative programming options to recipients,
offering at least about fifteen different alternative programming options to recipients,
offering at least about twenty different alternative programming options to recipients,
offering at least about thirty different alternative programming options to recipients,
offering at least about fifty different alternative programming options to recipients, and
offering at least about one hundred different alternative programming options to recipients.
13. A method of providing numerous subscribers multi-channel broadcast program options as described in claim 1 wherein said step of authorizing total service based on said multi-channel broadcast service subscriber composite comprises the step of transmitting a fluctuation entitlement management message.
14. A method of providing numerous subscribers multi-channel broadcast program options as described in claim 1 and further comprising the steps of:
presenting a large communication capacity of programming options to recipients; and
prompting recipient selection from said large communication capacity of programming options.
15. A method of providing a subscriber multi-channel broadcast program options comprising the steps of:
establishing a multi-channel broadcast service transmission capability;
establishing a multi-channel broadcast service receipt capability;
storing at least one nonce multi-channel broadcast program collective at said multi-channel broadcast service receipt capability;
securely transmitting a nonce based multi-channel broadcast entitlement management message that contains less than an individual subscriber's total individual channel authorization information to said multi-channel broadcast service receipt capability to transform service indications for an individual subscriber through fluctuation of said nonce multi-channel broadcast program collective at said multi-channel broadcast service receipt capability to create a multi-channel broadcast service subscriber composite;
authorizing a total recipient programming selection for said individual subscriber at said multi-channel broadcast service receipt capability based on said multi-channel broadcast service subscriber composite; and
presenting said recipient programming selection as an authorized multi-channel broadcast service to said subscriber.
16. A method of providing numerous subscribers multi-channel broadcast program options as described in claim 15 wherein said step of securely transmitting a nonce based multi-channel broadcast entitlement management message to said multi-channel broadcast service receipt capability comprises the step of securely transmitting a fluctuation entitlement management message to said multi-channel broadcast service receipt capability.
17. A method of providing numerous subscribers multi-channel broadcast program options as described in claim 15 wherein said step of storing at least one nonce multi-channel broadcast program collective at said multi-channel broadcast service receipt capability comprises the step of storing at least one alterable nonce multi-channel broadcast program collective at said multi-channel broadcast service receipt capability.
18. A method of providing numerous subscribers multi-channel broadcast program options as described in claim 15 wherein said step of storing at least one nonce multi-channel broadcast program collective at said multi-channel broadcast service receipt capability comprises the step of storing a plurality of nonce multi-channel broadcast program collectives at said multi-channel broadcast service receipt capability.
19. A method of providing numerous subscribers multi-channel broadcast program options as described in claim 18 wherein said step of securely transmitting a nonce based multi-channel broadcast entitlement management message to said multi-channel broadcast service receipt capability comprises the step of securely transmitting a nonce identifying entitlement management message to said multi-channel broadcast service receipt capability.
20. A numerous subscriber multi-channel broadcast program option system comprising:
a communication headend;
a multi-channel broadcast program option selector;
a base subscription channel package indicator that contains less than an individual subscriber's total individual channel authorization information and is responsive to said multi-channel broadcast program option selector;
a subscriber channel fluctuation entitlement management message responsive to said multi-channel broadcast program option selector;
a multi-channel broadcast entitlement management message transmitter;
at least one communication transmission path responsive to said communication headend;
a multi-channel broadcast receiver responsive to said communication transmission path;
a multi-channel broadcast programming fluctuation processor at an individual subscriber service receipt capability that is responsive to said subscription channel package indicator and said secondary subscriber channel fluctuation entitlement management message and which authorizes a total multi-channel broadcast service composite by transforming the service indications of said subscription channel package; and
a recipient service presentation element responsive to said multi-channel broadcast programming fluctuation processor.
21. A numerous subscriber multi-channel broadcast program option system as described in claim 20 wherein said multi-channel broadcast programming fluctuation processor comprises a multi-channel broadcast programming fluctuation processor programmed to operate on information from said base subscription channel package indicator by information from said subscriber channel fluctuation entitlement management message.
22. A numerous subscriber multi-channel broadcast program option system as described in claim 20 wherein said multi-channel broadcast programming fluctuation processor comprises an accretion programming service composite processor.
23. A numerous subscriber multi-channel broadcast program option system as described in claim 20 wherein said multi-channel broadcast programming fluctuation processor comprises a removal programming service composite processor.
24. A numerous subscriber multi-channel broadcast program option system as described in claim 20 and further comprising a tertiary service directive indicator, and wherein said multi-channel broadcast programming fluctuation processor is responsive to said tertiary service directive indicator.
25. A numerous subscriber multi-channel broadcast program option system as described in claim 20 wherein said multi-channel broadcast program option selector comprises a fluctuation optimized package multi-channel broadcast program option selector.
26. A numerous subscriber multi-channel broadcast program option system as described in claim 20 wherein said multi-channel broadcast entitlement management message transmitter comprises a fluctuation entitlement management message transmitter.