AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION FOR INTERNET VIDEO CLIENT

摘要

A device (12/12A) is enabled to display Internet TV by accessing (40) a management server (32) with a secret unique ID and receiving back (42/48) from the server, assuming the ID is approved, a user token and a service list of content servers with knowledge of the user token. A user can select (52) a content server which causes the device to upload (54) its user token and in response receive (56) a content list from the content server, from which content can be selected (58) for display. Neither list may be modified by the device and the device can access only content on a content list.