Controlling access to secured media content
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsDouglas L. VOIGT, Paul KALER
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Abstract
A technique includes controlling access to secured media content. The access control includes, in response to a principal attempting to access secured media content, challenging authentication of the principal to access the secured media. Challenging the authentication includes launching an authentication agent in response to the content of an electronic label associated with the secured media content and using the authentication agent to provide a result indicating whether the principal has permission to access the secured media content. The technique includes based on the result, selectively allowing the principal to access the secured media content.
Claims15
A method comprising:
- controlling access to secured media content, comprising:
- in response to a principal attempting to access the secured media content, challenging authentication of the principal to access the secured media, wherein challenging the authentication comprises launching an authentication agent in response to content of an electronic label associated with the secured media content and using the authentication agent to provide a result indicating whether the principal has permission to access the secured media content;
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- based on the result, selectively allowing the principal to access the secured media content.
An apparatus comprising:
- a memory storing media content to be protected;
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- a processor to generate a label to accompany the media content to control access to the media content, the processor to:
- register a first identifier for the media content with an authentication service;
- store the first identifier in a label of a container that contains the media content;
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- store content in the label, the content being used to launch an authorization agent that provides a result indicating whether a principal has permission to access the secured media content.
An article comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium to store instructions that when executed by a processor-based machine cause the processor-based machine to:
- in response to an attempted access to secured media content by a principal, selectively classify the secured media content as belonging to a restricted type to prevent the access and use the content of an electronic label associated with the unsecured media content to launch an authentication agent to authenticate whether the principal has permission to access the secured media content;
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- in response to the authentication agent providing a key associated with authorization of the principal to access the secured media content, selectively reclassify the secured media content from belonging to the restricted type to belonging to an unrestricted type to allow the principal to access the secured media content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.