Resumption of play for a content-delivery session
US9578104B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 31, 2014 |
| Grant date | Feb 21, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 2, 2034 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L63/062
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Multimedia content may be delivered to content consumer devices via a content-delivery network. Encrypted content and cryptography keys for decrypting the content may be distributed from a data center to various nodes of the content-delivery network, each node acting as a semi-independent content-delivery system. Each content-delivery system is capable of delivering received content to end-users and implementing a key-management scheme to facilitate secure content-delivery and usage tracking, even when the content-delivery system is disconnected from the data center. Further, each content-delivery system may generate an authorization-token that can be transmitted to other systems in the content-delivery network, enabling the other systems to quickly determine that a request to resume a previous content-delivery session has already been authorized.
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