System and method for providing a secure content with revocable access
AssigneeDisney Enterprises, Inc.
InventorCyril Rickelton-Abdi
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Abstract
There is provided a method for use by a media player to provide access to a media content. The method comprises receiving a request from a user for playing the media content, prompting a user for an authorization code, receiving the authorization code from the user, transmitting the authorization code to an authentication server over a network, receiving a valid authentication message from the authentication server over the network if the authorization code is confirmed to be valid, transmitting the valid authentication message to a content server over the network, retrieving the media content from the content server over the network, wherein the media content incorporates an identification information associating the media content with the user.
Claims20
A method for use by a media player to provide access to a media content, the method comprising:
- receiving a request from a user for playing the media content;
- prompting a user for an authorization code;
- receiving the authorization code from the user;
- transmitting the authorization code to an authentication server over a network;
- receiving a valid authentication message from the authentication server over the network if the authorization code is confirmed to be valid;
- transmitting the valid authentication message to a content server over the network;
- retrieving the media content from the content server over the network, wherein the media content incorporates an identification information associating the media content with the user.
The method of claim 3, wherein the watermark is detectable with image processing.
A media player for providing access to a media content, the media player comprising a processor configured to:
- receive a request from a user for playing the media content;
- prompt a user for an authorization code;
- receive the authorization code from the user;
- transmit the authorization code to an authentication server over a network;
- receive a valid authentication message from the authentication server over the network if the authorization code is confirmed to be valid;
- transmit the valid authentication message to a content server over the network;
- retrieve the media content from the content server over the network, wherein the media content incorporates an identification information associating the media content with the user.
A computer readable medium embodying a program code for execution by a processor of a media player, the program code comprising:
- code for receiving a request from a user for playing the media content;
- code for prompting a user for an authorization code;
- code for receiving the authorization code from the user;
- code transmitting the authorization code to an authentication server over a network;
- code for receiving a valid authentication message from the authentication server over the network if the authorization code is confirmed to be valid;
- code for transmitting the valid authentication message to a content server over the network;
- code for retrieving the media content from the content server over the network, wherein the media content incorporates an identification information associating the media content with the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.