Techniques for securely delivering media data
View Patent ↗Techniques are provided for securely delivering media data. A requestor is directed to a secure streaming portal after being authenticated. A requesting application contacts the secure streaming portal and requests media data. A configuration header having a key for decrypting the media data is sent to the requesting application using secure communications. The media data is dynamically encrypted using the key and streamed to the requesting application. The requesting application uses the key and decrypts the encrypted media data for consumption.
1. A computer-implemented method for securely delivering media data, comprising:
authenticating a requestor for secure access to media data;
contacting a service to determine where and how the media data is to be acquired to satisfy the request and masking details of where and how the media data is acquired from the requestor;
delivering to the requestor a first portion of configuration data for using the media data via secure communication protocols, the first portion includes a licensing key and the licensing key includes a decryption key, the licensing key, which includes the decryption key is used by the requestor to decrypt an encrypted version of the media data for play, and separately delivering to the requestor a second portion of the configuration data via insecure communication protocols, the insecure communication protocols include one or more of the following: Real Time Protocol (RTP), Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), the configuration data is logically associated with a single piece of metadata that is delivered as two pieces of metadata in separate transactions as the first portion via the secure communication protocols and the second portion via the insecure communication protocols; and
delivering the encrypted version of the media data, via the insecure communication protocols, to the requestor and the encrypted version of the media data is unusable without the first portion of the configuration data, and wherein the decryption key is unique to requestor and the media data being requested, and the licensing key is unique to a relationship between the requestor and the media data being requested.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein authenticating further includes, altering a request from the authenticated requestor which is made for the media data to point to a secure streaming portal.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein authenticating further includes, passing the requestor to an external authentication service for authentication.
4. The method of claim 2 wherein delivering the encrypted version of the media data further includes delivering the media data in a customized encrypted format that requires the decryption key included within the configuration data before the media data is usable.
5. The method of claim 4 wherein delivering the media data further includes delivering the encrypted version of the media data by streaming the media data to an application associated with the requestor as needed.