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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Avvasi Inc., Waterloo, CA;
Michael Archer, Cambridge, CA;
Mate Prgin, Waterloo, CA;
Dan Eble, Kitchener, CA;
Anthony Joch, Waterloo, CA;
Michael Gallant, Kitchener, CA;
Avvasi Inc., Waterloo, CA;
Abstract
Systems and methods of controlling access to a multimedia stream in a media streaming session from a multimedia server to a requesting device via a network. The systems and methods facilitate receiving a primary request for the multimedia stream from the requesting device; determining whether to allow access to the primary request from the requesting device in accordance with at least one media session policy; and if access is permitted, then generating a secondary request corresponding to the primary request; providing the secondary request to the multimedia server; receiving a first multimedia stream from the multimedia server in response to the secondary request; determining whether to transmit the first multimedia stream or a second multimedia stream based on the at least one media session policy; and transmitting either the first multimedia stream or the second multimedia stream to the requesting device as indicated by the at least one media session policy.