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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2005
Lakshminarayanan Gunaseelan, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abdul Salam Faisal Padinjareveetil, Foster City, CA (US);
Lakshminarayanan Gunaseelan, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abdul Salam Faisal Padinjareveetil, Foster City, CA (US);
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is implemented within a distributed network operating environment (such as a CDN) in which content providers offload given content for delivery from servers (e.g., CDN edge servers) managed by a service provider (such as a CDN operator). It is assumed that the given content is secured using a digital rights management (DRM) scheme. According to the invention, a distributed set of license server processes are provided to manage the issuance of content licenses. Each of the license server processes is operative to generate licenses by which a given end user client obtains given rights for given content, typically the content served from the machine. A distributed set of license server processes operates in a de-centralized manner and without access to third party business logic (e.g., a payment mechanism) or authentication information associated with end users requesting the given content.
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