Method and apparatus for mobile communication based ordering of on-demand digital content
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Mar 15, 2016
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Sep 26, 2013
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Mar 8, 2013
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Mar 8, 2012
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A computer implemented method and apparatus for mobile communication based ordering of on-demand digital content (such as video content in a network-based pay TV service). In some embodiments the mobile communication is via an SMS cell phone text and payment of the ordered content is by billing a financial account associated with the owner of the cell phone. The method generates for display to the user, upon selection of digital content desired to be ordered by the user and accessed by a specific network-enabled device associated with the user, a unique video activation request number (VARN), the VARN comprising a first component which uniquely identifies a specific one or more Internet-enabled devices and a second component that uniquely identifies the ordered digital content. Access by the Internet-enabled device to the ordered digital content is authorized only after receipt from a message-based mobile communication device of a communication message which includes the VARN is associated with the owner of the cell phone.
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