LOW LATENCY AUTHENTICATION OF GATED MEDIA RELAY SERVICES

摘要

Media relay services are often used to establish sufficiently direct connections in order to enable provisioning of a real-time media service and/or improve the quality of real-time media services. However, media relay services are often gated using authentication systems that add undesirable delay to the delivery and/or access to a real-time media service, which in turn diminish the user experience. By contrast, various implementations disclosed herein include apparatuses, systems, and methods of providing low latency authentication of gated media relay services. For example, in some implementations, a method includes receiving a request for access to a gated media relay service, providing provisional access to the service until an authentication result is available, determining whether the requesting device is authorized to access the media relay service, and at least one of ending or continuing access to the media relay service based on the authentication result.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving a request for a gated media relay service from a client device, wherein the gated media relay service enables the delivery of a real-time media service that is reserved for client devices that satisfy one or more criteria of an authentication process; providing the client device provisional access to the media relay service in response to receiving the request for the gated media relay service; and determining whether or not to prolong or end the provisional access by challenging the authentication credentials of the client device.