Patent ID: 9268922
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A system comprising: a Digital Rights Management (DRM) licensing server operable to receive authentication information generated by a DRM module of a client device, to receive a device identifier that uniquely distinguishes the client device from other client devices, wherein the device identifier has been generated by the DRM module, and to authenticate the DRM module based on the authentication information, wherein the DRM licensing server is further operable to create a signed identifier based on the device identifier responsive to authenticating the DRM module, and to transmit the signed identifier to the client device; and an application server operable to authenticate the client device by: receiving the signed identifier from the client device, verifying that the signed identifier was generated by the DRM licensing server, identifying an account, and granting the client device access to the application server responsive to identifying the account, the application server further operable to register the client device with the account at the application server, based on the signed identifier.