Methods and apparatus for integrating digital rights management (DRM) systems with native HTTP live streaming

A device, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• a memory comprising program instructions, the program instructions executable by the at least one processor to implement an operating system (OS) platform module and an application, herein the application operable to:
• obtain a manifest file, the manifest file indicating content to be streamed to the device from a content server according to a HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) live streaming (HLS) protocol supported by the OS platform and further indicating metadata for the content, the metadata not identifying a key for decrypting the content;
• access a digital rights management (DRM) server according to the metadata to obtain a license for the content and a key for decrypting the content;
• modify the manifest file to include a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for obtaining the key according to information received from the DRM server;
• and
• provide the modified manifest file to the OS platform module, the OS platform module operable to obtain the key according to the URL indicated in the modified manifest file, obtain a data stream of the indicated content from the content server, and decrypt data in the stream according to the obtained key.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program instructions, the program instructions computer-executable to implement an application on a device configured according to an operating system (OS) platform, the application operable to:

• obtain a manifest file, the manifest file indicating content to be streamed to the device from a content server according to an HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) live streaming (HLS) protocol supported by the OS platform and further indicating metadata for the content, the metadata not identifying a key for decrypting the content;
• access a digital rights management (DRM) server according to the metadata to obtain a license for the content and a key for decrypting the content;
• modify the manifest file to include a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for obtaining the key according to information received from the DRM server;
• and
• provide the modified manifest file to an OS platform module, the OS platform module obtaining the key according to the URL indicated in the modified manifest file, obtaining a data stream of the indicated content from the content server, and decrypting data in the stream according to the obtained key.