METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTHORIZING DELIVERY OF STREAMING VIDEO TO LICENSED VIEWERS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide, by a licensing service organization (LSO), licensed access to selected videos.

SOLUTION: An LSO obtains licenses from video content providers and combines these licenses with a new license for videos selected by a licensee organization. Administrators at the licensee organization then obtain a video authorization key for each video selection from the LSO and embed those keys into web pages that are accessible via an intranet. Navigating to a web page for that selection from a computer connected to the intranet causes a viewing request. The viewing request includes the embedded video authorization key and an IP address of the computer to be sent to a server at the LSO. The server uses the incoming information to determine whether the request is from a predetermined intranet computer and if so to determine whether the request can be generated based on the new license conditions.

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