Secure streaming container
First Claim
1. A method of providing streaming content, comprising the steps of:
- creating a digital container that includes contents including streaming media content;
selecting one or more modules for inclusion in the digital container, the selection of the modules being based on at least one of a type of streaming media content;
encrypting at least a portion of the contents to produce a secured streaming container (SSC); and
transmitting the SSC to a target device for access of the SSC at the target device.
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Abstract
A system and method for securely streaming encrypted digital media content out of a digital container to a user'"'"'s media player. This streaming occurs after the digital container has been delivered to the user'"'"'s machine and after the user has been authorized to access the encrypted content. The user'"'"'s operating system and media player treat the data stream as if it were a being delivered over the Internet (or other network) from a streaming web server. However, no Internet connection is required after the container has been delivered to the user and the data stream suffers no quality loss due to network traffic or web server access problems. In this process of the invention, the encrypted content files are decrypted and fed to the user'"'"'s media player in real time and are never written to the user'"'"'s hard drive or storage device. This process makes unauthorized copying of the digital content contained in the digital container virtually impossible.
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31 Claims
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1. A method of providing streaming content, comprising the steps of:
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creating a digital container that includes contents including streaming media content;
selecting one or more modules for inclusion in the digital container, the selection of the modules being based on at least one of a type of streaming media content;
encrypting at least a portion of the contents to produce a secured streaming container (SSC); and
transmitting the SSC to a target device for access of the SSC at the target device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method of creating and controlling streaming content, comprising the steps of:
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creating a digital container that includes electronic contents including streaming media content;
selecting one or more modules for transmission with the digital container based a characteristic of the streaming media content;
encrypting at least a portion of the electronic contents to produce a secured streaming container (SSC); and
transmitting the secured streaming container (SSC) with the streaming media content and the one or more modules to control playback of the streaming media content. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having readable program code embodied in the medium, the computer program product includes at least one component to cause or control execution of the following steps:
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creating a digital container that includes contents including streaming media content;
selecting one or more modules for inclusion in the digital container, the selection of the modules being based on at least one of a type of streaming media content;
encrypting at least a portion of the contents to produce a secured streaming container (SSC); and
transmitting the SSC to a target device for access of the SSC at the target device. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31)
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