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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2011
Applicants:
Mitch Zollinger, San Jose, CA (US);
Filip Paun, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mitch Zollinger, San Jose, CA (US);
Filip Paun, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Netflix, Inc, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/3247 (2013.01); H04L 9/085 (2013.01); H04L 2209/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computer-implemented technique for determining whether a first computing device has the correct version of a software program may be used to provide a secure approach to verifying that a client computing device has a secure and approved version of content player software implemented for consuming downloaded copyright media content. With this technique, copyright media content providers are able to ensure that only secure and approved content players are implemented to access the content.