Patent ID: 9323916
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of securely authorizing access to media content, comprising: receiving, from a first device, a first identification of a second device and a request to authorize access to the media content by the second device; verifying a user account associated with the first device; generating a token in a manner that prevents authentication information of a user of the first device from being derived from the token, the token being a randomly generated or arbitrary value; associating the token with the first identification received from the first device; sending the token to the first device, the token to be sent from the first device to the second device; receiving, from the second device, the token and a second identification of the second device; authenticating the second device based on comparing the second identification received from the second device to the first identification associated with the received token; and authorizing access to the media content by the second device based on said authenticating and while the second device is associated with a user account different from the user account associated with the first device.