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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2014
Raymond Lau, Charlestown, MA (US);
R. Paul Johnson, Burlington, MA (US);
Raymond Lau, Charlestown, MA (US);
R. Paul Johnson, Burlington, MA (US);
Ramp Holdings, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for secure video delivery. A method includes providing a cryptographically signed manifest Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) manifest format player, the signed URL including at least a validity time span and an identification of a video, in the manifest format player, loading the manifest URL, the manifest URL pointing to an instantiation of a proxy, in the proxy, loading the manifest URL and verifying a validity of the signed URL, in the proxy, retrieving the manifest URL contents, in the proxy, substituting each non-metadata entry in the manifest URL contents with signed URLs either to an underlying video segment or back to an instantiation of the proxy if an entry another manifest, and in the HTTP manifest player, processing the manifest altered with signed URLs as a standard manifest, playing the content.