ASSET STREAMING

• US 20130145430A1
• Filed: 06/05/2012
• Published: 06/06/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Wong, Raymond, Bergman, Erik Torres
• Granted Patent: US 8,943,555 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/4
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/108 when the policy decisions are valid for a limited amount of time
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/561 Adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

A device streams assets to network-based storage in cooperation with servers administering the network-based storage. The servers manage and secure access to the stream of assets, on both an account level and an asset level, in accordance with asset metadata registered for the assets during streaming, and in accordance with account data associated with the assets being streamed and the device with which the assets are streamed. The servers operate to notify other authorized devices associated with the device that the assets are available to download, including initiating the download of assets automatically or in response to user input.

Claims

1. A data processing system, the system comprising:

an account server in intermittent communication with devices operable with accounts authenticated by the account server;

a network-based storage service in communication with the account server, the network-based storage service having servers that manage assets being streamed among the devices wherein the servers, for a limited time and in connection with an authenticated account, include;

the account server configured to authorize a device to use the network based storage service to stream assets;

a streams server configured to register metadata describing an asset and further authorize the device to upload the asset to a storage server; and

the storage server configured to store the asset and upload the asset from the device in accordance with the metadata registered for the asset.

2. A data processing system as in claim 1, wherein the streams server is further configured to authorize the device to download the asset from the storage server in accordance with the metadata registered for the asset.

3. A data processing system as in claim 1, wherein the servers that manage assets are further configured to notify the device and other devices associated with the device that the asset is available for streaming in accordance with the metadata registered for the asset.

4. A data processing system as in claim 1, wherein the other devices associated with the device include devices that are:

authorized to stream assets in connection with a same authenticated account as the device that acquired the asset; and

authorized to follow assets streamed by the device that acquired the asset in accordance with the metadata registered for the asset.

5. A data processing system as in claim 1, wherein the account server is further configured to indicate which server of the network-based storage service the device should use to stream assets based on a proximity of the device to any one or more of available servers of the network-based storage service.