Patent ID: 11886528
Assignee: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a computing device, a request for content comprising a plurality of content fragments, wherein the request comprises a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) comprising a first portion indicative of a key value and a second portion indicative of a reference hash value;
determining, based on the key value being valid, a hash value, wherein the hash value is associated with the first portion of the URL and the key value;
determining, based on the hash value matching the reference hash value of the second portion of the URL, that the request is legitimate, wherein the reference hash value is indicative of a time code and a quality level for the content; and
causing, based on the request being legitimate, a first content fragment of the plurality of content fragments to be output, wherein the first content fragment is associated with the time code and the quality level.