Simple non-autonomous peering environment, watermarking and authentication

摘要

A Secure Non-autonomous Peering (SNAP) system includes a hierarchical digital watermarking scheme, a central licensing authority, licensed fabricators and assemblers.

主权项

1. A method of providing a unique media content instance, comprising:
generating a first version of media content and a second version of the media content, wherein the first version of the media content is different than the second version of the media content; segmenting the first version of the media content into a plurality of first media content version segments; segmenting the second version of the media content into a plurality of second media content version segments; and defining the unique media program content instance from the first media content version segments and the second media program content version segments according to a pattern defined by a title schema uniquely associated with the unique media content instance, the defining comprising:
combining the first media program content version segments and the second media content version segments according to the pattern to define first order media program content segments;combining the first order media content segments according to the pattern to define the unique media program content instance; wherein the first media content version segments and the second media content version segments correspond to a similar data range and the title schema determines which segments are selected from which version of the media content to define the unique media program content instance.