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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2012
Leo Mark Pedlow, Jr., Ramona, CA (US);
True Xiong, San Diego, CA (US);
Leo Mark Pedlow, Jr., Ramona, CA (US);
True Xiong, San Diego, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Network Entertainment International LLC, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
Managing digital rights of content based on trusted relationships including: tagging the content as using encryption and specifying a retrieval method that is used to request a decryption key so that the content is live streamed to a client device a client device; transmitting an affiliation token to a trusted agent, wherein the trusted agent relays the affiliation token onto the client device based on requirement and identifier of the client device; receiving a request from the client device for the decryption key, which includes a value from the affiliation token to identify the trusted relationships; and verifying the request and providing the decryption key to the client device, wherein the client device uses the decryption key to decrypt the live streaming content for playback. Keywords include digital rights management and trusted relationship.