DISTRIBUTED SECURE CONTENT DELIVERY

摘要

Techniques for distributed and secure content delivery are provided. Requests for content are routed to a centralized service where the requestors are authenticated for access to the content. The centralized service generates access statements for the requestors. The requestors are redirected to particular distributed content services having access to the desired content. The distributed content services verify the access statements and vend the desired content to the requestors.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
authenticating a principal; presenting a list of available content to the principal in response to policy associated with the principal; receiving a selection for one or more portions of the content from the principal; and storing one or more access statements in a repository, wherein the one or more access statements provide an indication within the repository for an identity of the principal that the principal is permitted to acquire the selection; and instructing the principal to contact a content service to acquire the selection, wherein the content service uses the repository when contacted by the principal to locate the one or more access statements before vending the selection to the principal.