Netflix Inc.

Niranjan P Ghate

Raymond James Walsh

Bertrand Mollinier Toublet

Manuel Correa

Shyam Gala

Pablo Pissanetzky

Katheryn Shi

Edward H Barker

Suudhan Rangarajan

Christopher Gray

The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving, from a client device, a request for multimedia content, where the request includes both a manifest request that includes client identification data and a license request that includes a license challenge. The method may further include validating the received request for multimedia content using the client identification data in the manifest request and generating a manifest response that includes an identification of a specified multimedia content stream that is to be provided to the client device. The method may also include acquiring at least one license in response to the license request, where the license includes a response to the license challenge having various content keys, and then providing the specified multimedia content stream, including the generated manifest response and the acquired license, to the client device. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for streamlining multimedia content acquisition

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Fremont, CA, United States of America

Niranjan P Ghate