METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE PROTECTED STORAGE OF DOWNLOADED MEDIA CONTENT VIA A VIRTUALIZED PLATFORM

摘要

A method and system for the protected storage of downloaded media content via a virtualized platform. A method comprises downloading content to a special purpose virtual machine and then storing the downloaded content at a location, where the location is only accessible via the special purpose virtual machine. The stored content is then streamed over a virtual network to a general purpose virtual machine, where the special purpose virtual machine and the general purpose virtual machine exist on the same personal computer (PC).

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions which, when executed by a processing system, cause the processing system to:
store content for streaming from a first virtual machine over a virtual network to a second virtual machine, wherein the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine exist on the same computer, and wherein the content has been downloaded from one or more of a remote media server, the Internet or a local area network (LAN) to the first virtual machine and has been stored, prior to streaming, at a location accessible only by the first virtual machine.