Dynamic universal resource locator (URL) construction for accessing media content

摘要

A dynamic URLs construction system includes a publisher server and one content accessor server. The publisher server has a content URL access module, a content access module and a content database for storing media content and providing content URL accessing instructions and media content to a content accessor server. Media content provided by a publisher is accessed using dynamic URLs. A content accessor server includes at least one dynamic URL generation module and one content retrieval module. The content accessor server receives a content ID and a template URL containing instruction for constructing the corresponding dynamic URL from the publisher server. The dynamic URL generation module parses the template URL instructions, obtains an access key associated with the dynamic URL and constructs the dynamic URL using the access key and the content ID. The content retrieval module retrieves the content referenced by the dynamic URL.