Abstract: Various arrangements of a disc presentation device are presented. Such a disc presentation device may include a backing plate comprising a first surface. The disc presentation device may include a plurality of disc anchors arranged on the first surface of the backing plate. The plurality of disc anchors may be arranged in a circular pattern on the surface of the backing plate. Further, the plurality of disc anchors may be arranged such that when each disc anchor of the plurality of disc anchors is anchoring a disc, no disc coupled with an anchor of the plurality of disc anchors overlaps another disc coupled with another anchor of the plurality of disc anchors.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 1, 2012
Publication date:
November 7, 2013
Applicant:
Blockbuster L.L.C.
Inventors:
Kevin Andrew Lewis, Travis Michael Smith, Eileen Frances Head, Debra Vowell Trahan
Abstract: A method for provisioning audiovisual works to a client includes maintaining categorization information specifying, for each of multiple audiovisual works, one or more of multiple categories. One or more of the categories are associated with each of multiple delivery slots in response to input from a client. For each of the delivery slots, a first audiovisual work from one of the categories associated with the respective delivery slot is provisioned for delivery to a location associated with the client.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 10, 2004
Date of Patent:
January 1, 2013
Assignee:
Blockbuster L.L.C.
Inventors:
Dominic C. Wynn, Philip M. Williams, Malachi G. Simons, Nicholas F. Wilkins, Alistair Macrow, Nigel A. Dufty, Alvin Eng, Michael J. Doherty, David M. Groves
Abstract: A system and method for fulfilling a media request includes receiving a media request associated with a subscriber account. One inventory location is selected from a plurality of inventory locations to fulfill the media request, and at least one of the inventory locations accommodates in-store media rental requests.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 19, 2005
Date of Patent:
August 9, 2011
Assignee:
Blockbuster L.L.C.
Inventors:
Shane N Evangelist, Joseph W. Craft, IV, Leslie D. Crook, John D. Taylor, John F. Butler