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PROCESS AND STREAMING SERVER FOR ENCRYPTING A DATA STREAM WITH BANDWIDTH BASED VARIATION

  • US 20090327698A1
  • Filed: 04/30/2008
  • Published: 12/31/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/09/1999
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A client for receiving a data stream for use in a predefined number of viewings, comprising:

  • a control module that is programmed to perform actions comprising;

    providing a URI and a token associated with the URI, and a request for the data stream to a server; and

    if the URI, and token are validated;

    negotiating an encryption key with the server,receiving the data stream over a network a rate of a flow to maintain a substantially full client buffer and wherein a compression quality of the data stream is dynamically varied based on a determined bandwidth over the network,using the encryption key to decrypt the data stream; and

    a display module that is configured to control the display of the data stream.

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