Yahoo! Inc.

Ghousuddin Syed

Bhargavaram Bulleyya Gade

Vinay Polavarapu

Anthony Rodiger

Mark Ray Lee

Jay Brent DeShan

Chad Ric Gray

Justin Madison

Robert G Ames

William David Turner

Syed Noman Kazmi

Omar A Syed

Sastry Anipindi

Alex Khanin

Steven Alexander Roberts

Jared Felner

Karl Juhnke

Raul Giacoman

A system and method for securely streaming media. The system includes a gateway server that receives requests for access to a secured data resource from an end users. The request include an authorization ticket and a referring website. The gateway server validates the authorization ticket using a secret key shared with the referring website, and validates the referring website by verifying that referring website is on a white-list for the secured data resource. The gateway server selects a data server to service the request, and formats a data server access request containing the data server location and data server request parameter data and transmits the data server access request to the end users. When end users transmit the data server access requests to a data server, the data server validates the request and transmits it to the end user.

Method and system for securely streaming content

Method and system for uploading, managing and delivering digital content, including streaming media. The system according to one embodiment allows receives digital content from the client (), assigns a stream identifier (ID) to the content and stores the content. The client is given a playlist uniform resource locator (URL) for publishing on its web site (), the URL including the stream ID. Activation of the URL by an end user () causes the stream to be served to the end user, without the client receiving or providing an indication of the specifics of where the content was stored. An embodiment of the present provides a system and method that permit clients to actively manage their content, including defining logical folders and subfolders containing item(s) of the content and defining logical stream groups, containing items of the content.

Method and system for managing digital content, including streaming media

A system for monitoring digital content, including streaming media having one or more client test machines configured to receive and test digital content; one or more streaming servers configured to read content and provide the digital content to the client test machines; and one or more application servers configured to provide a test data file, having a URL to an item of the digital content, to the client test machines. The client test machines store the test results and transmit them to an application server for analysis. The application server may aggregate the information and sort the information via various categories of test results to pinpoint the location of potential points of failure along the path providing the digital content.

System and method for monitoring delivery of digital content, including streaming media

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Richardson, TX, United States of America

Ghousuddin Syed