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Security framework for HTTP streaming architecture

  • US 9,485,238 B2
  • Filed: 06/04/2014
  • Issued: 11/01/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method operative at a content server, comprising:

  • receiving a request for multimedia content from a client player application;

    sending the multimedia content from the content server to the client player application and, at the time of sending the multimedia content from the content server to the client player application, also sending a program to the client player application, the program including one or more instructions that, when executed, cause the client player application to encode a user identifier into a token;

    receiving the token;

    extracting the user identifier from the token and determining whether the user is authorized to receive the multimedia content.

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