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Methods and Apparatus for Integrating Digital Rights Management (DRM) Systems with Native HTTP Live Streaming

  • US 20130166906A1
  • Filed: 12/22/2011
  • Published: 06/27/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • performing, by an application implemented on a device configured according to an operating system (OS) platform;

    obtaining a manifest file, wherein the manifest file indicates content to be streamed to the device from a content server according to an HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) live streaming (HLS) protocol supported by the OS platform and further indicates metadata for the content;

    accessing a digital rights management (DRM) server according to the metadata to obtain a license for the content and a key for decrypting the content;

    modifying the manifest file to include a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for obtaining the key; and

    providing the modified manifest file to an OS platform module;

    wherein the OS platform module obtains the key according to the URL indicated in the manifest file, obtains a data stream of the indicated content from the content server, and decrypts data in the stream according to the obtained key.

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