MUMBAI, India, Nov. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202421036425 A) filed by Tata Play Limited, Maharashtra, on May 8, 2024, for 'method and system for providing an access to over-the-top (ott) content on restricted device platform.'

Inventor(s) include Harit Nagpal; Vishal Arya; Prathap Chowdry; Anand Prakash; and Ajay Harwani.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 14, under issue no. 46/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The disclosure relates to a method of providing an access to Over-The-Top (OTT) content on a restricted device platform in an OTT environment. The method includes receiving a request from a user device (102) to access OTT content of a service provider application (106) of a plurality of service provider applications (106a-n) registered with the OTT aggregator system (104). The request comprises a device identifier (ID) of the user device (102). Further, the method comprises facilitating the service provider application (106) to match the device ID of the user device (102) with pre-stored device IDs, while launching a session in the service provider application (106). Thereafter, the method comprises providing the access to the OTT content associated with the service provider application (106) to the user device (102), by automatically logging to the service provider application (106) through a Single-Sing-On (SSO) process, based on the match."

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