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US 10,708,326 B2Granted
Secure media casting bypassing mobile devices
AssigneeARRIS Enterprises LLC
InventorsGeetha Mangalore, Nicol C. P. So
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Abstract
A method is provided for secure and direct delivery of digital media content directly from a content server to a casting digital media player. In the method, the digital media player is provided with a custom URL that contains concatenated information related to the IP address associate with the location of a key on a mobile device used to commence a casting session.
Claims9
A method comprising:
- instantiating a key server on a first device;
- determining an IP address of said first device;
- constructing, an URL based at least in part on said IP address of said first device, wherein:
- said URL identifies said first device using a DNS name, and said DNS name contains a representation of said IP address;
- delivering said URL to a digital media player, wherein said digital media player transmits said DNS name to a domain name server and receives said IP address in response;
- accessing said URL from said digital media player;
- said digital media player accessing said key server using said IP address to obtain a content key;
- said digital media player accessing a content server to obtain digital content in a protected form;
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- said digital media player transmitting said digital content to a display device in a form renderable by said display device based, at least in part on use of said content key.
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