Providing a limited use syndicated media to authorized users
A system and method for providing a limited use syndicated media item to authorized users. In one embodiment, a universal resource identifier that identifies the syndicated media item may be limited to a predetermined number of times it may be accessed by a particular user. In one embodiment, the limited use URL may or may not be associated with an already authorized media item. In another example, the URL may be limited to being accessed a predetermined number of times during a predetermined period of time, such as no more than three times a day. In a further example, the URL may be limited to a predetermined number of instances the URL may be accessed or distributed by a user. In one embodiment, once the predetermined threshold has been met, further attempts to access will result in the extent of access being affected.
1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a computing device, a first message from a syndication subscriber over a network, the first message comprising a syndication subscriber identifier and a syndicated media item identifier that identifies a limited use syndicated media item, the syndication subscriber automatically receiving the limited use syndicated media item identifier using a syndication retriever that periodically requests updates from a syndicated content provider;
determining, via the computing device, whether the syndication subscriber is authorized to receive the limited use syndicated media item identified by the syndicated media identifier;
authorizing, via the computing device, transmission of the limited use syndicated media item to the syndication subscriber over the network in response to a positive determination of authorization, said authorization comprising associating a nonce token with the syndication retriever; and
transmitting, via the computing device over the network, the limited use syndicated media item to the syndication subscriber based on said nonce token, said transmission occurring without the syndicated content provider having to revisit sources of the limited use syndicated media item.
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of determining whether a threshold value associated with the limited use syndicated media item has been reached, wherein if the threshold value has been reached, the extent of data associated with the limited use media item that is made available to the syndication subscriber is affected, and if not reached, the extent is not limited.
3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising decrementing a counter stored in a memory if the threshold is not reached.
4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the step of determining whether a threshold value associated with the limited use syndicated media item has been reached comprises:
accessing a counter that represents a number of times the limited use syndicated media item has been accessed by said syndication subscriber; and
comparing the number of times the limited use syndicated media item has been accessed to the threshold value.
5. The method of claim 4 wherein if the number of times the limited use syndicated media item has been accessed exceeds the threshold value, the extent of the data displayed is limited.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein the limited data displayed comprises a message indicating that the threshold value has been reached.
7. The method of claim 5 wherein the limited data displayed comprises a portion of the data associated with the limited use syndicated media item.
8. The method of claim 5 wherein the portion comprises a clip.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the syndicated subscriber obtains the syndicated media item identifier from an indicator in a syndication feed that can be resolved to retrieve the syndicated media item.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the indicator is a URL to the syndicated content provider.
11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the indicator is a URL to an authorization computer.
12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, in response to a negative determination of authorization, transmitting instructions to obtain the limited use syndicated media item to the syndication subscriber.
13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the syndication retriever is a syndication aggregator.
14. The method of claim 1 , further comprising transmitting the limited use syndicated media item to the syndication subscriber.
15. The method of claim 1 , further comprising crediting an owner of the limited use syndicated media item.
16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the limited use syndicated media item is syndicated using a real simple syndication protocol.
17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the syndication aggregator is operated by the syndication subscriber.
18. The method of claim 1 , wherein the limited use syndicated media is a video.
19. The method of claim 1 , wherein the limited use syndicated media is part of a podcast.
20. The method of claim 1 , wherein the limited use syndicated media is a blog.
21. The method of claim 1 , wherein the limited use syndicated media is an audio file.
22. The method of claim 1 , wherein the limited use syndicated media is computer code.