Digital rights management of streaming contents and services
AssigneesSony Network Entertainment International LLC, Sony Corporation
InventorsLeo Pedlow, True Xiong, Eric Holcomb, Kathy Fielder
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Abstract
Managing digital rights of contents and services streamed to a client device, including: receiving and validating a certificate from the client device; enabling the client device to log into and communicate with a server using a secure protocol to establish a private relationship between the client device and the server; and transmitting a resource identifier to the client device using the secure protocol when the private relationship is established.
Claims1
A method of managing digital rights of contents and services streamed to a client device, the method comprising:
- receiving and validating a certificate from the client device;
- enabling the client device to log into and communicate with a server using a secure protocol to establish a private relationship between the client device and the server;
- and
- transmitting a resource identifier to the client device using the secure protocol when the private relationship is established.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.