Application US20200019677

Monitoring Playback of Media Content, Including Copyrighted Items
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US20200019677

1. A method of controlling playback of media content having intellectual property assets, the method comprising: (7) (6)

using the media content by provider servers and making the media content available to users for playback and for recording playback logs;

using the provider servers for playing back the media content by the users;

generating a database of the media content and of data of rights holders of the intellectual property assets in the media content;

during playback of the media consent by each of the users, sending media content metadata and user information to a main server;

comparing the multimedia content and the media content metadata played back by each of the users to the media content metadata uploaded to the main server; and

registering an unauthorized use of the media content if a mismatch is determined.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising coupling the provider servers to the main server. (0)

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending data about the played back media content to the rights holder after sending the media content to the users, (0)

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the provider servers are configured to play back the media content to the users, select and play audio and video files, set up multimedia content uploads to a user-specified relay server, stop transmitting of information from a server to the relay server, substitute the information transmitted from the server to the relay server, turn off the relay server. (0)

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising installing a preinstalled application on users' devices for paying back the media content. (0)

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising registering smart contracts between the rights holders and the providers on a blockchain-enabled platform. (0)

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending payments to the rights holders after the media content is played back, the payments being a cryptocurrency payment from a wallet of the server provider in amounts in accordance with smart contracts. (0)

8. A system of controlling playback of media content having intellectual property assets in accordance with claim 1, the system comprising: (6) (4)

at least one provider server providing the media content coupled to at least one media content playback device;

a verification and analysis device coupled to content playback devices; and

a main server for storing media content metadata, the main server coupled to the content playback devices and to the provider servers; wherein

the verification and analysis device is configured to verify and compare the multimedia content and the media content metadata played back by each of the users to the media content metadata uploaded to the main server from a content playback device and from the provider server.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising servers of the rights holders coupled to the main server. (0)

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the provider server further comprises: (0) (5)

a storage device coupled to a content distribution module;

a playback position identification module connected in series to a playback properties module;

a metadata download module;

an I/O module;

wherein outputs of the storage device, of the metadata upload module, and of the I/O module serve as outputs the provider server, and wherein inputs of the storage device, of the playback position identification module, and of the I/O module serve as inputs of the provider server.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the storage device stores a database of the media content metadata comprising data of rights holders of the intellectual property assets in the media content, metadata of the intellectual property assets, data of the users of the content playback devices and the media content. (0)

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the verification and analysis device comprises: (0) (3)

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the verification and analysis device comprises: (0) (2)

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the content access device is configured to connect to end user devices in a form of a speaker, headset, or any audio and video playback device. (0)

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Application US20200019677

Monitoring Playback of Media Content, Including Copyrighted Items

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