Patent ID: 9317677
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising distributing, from an origin server, a plurality of content items to a server in a content delivery network, the content items each being identified in a manner that expresses relationships between a respective one of the content items and an associated content element, wherein the content element and the respective one of the content items represent a portion of an electronic content work such as an electronic book, magazine, or article, and providing a requesting Web browser associated with a client computer a request signature that is based on a client identifier, a content element identifier, and trusted credentials to be used by the server in the content delivery network for verifying that the browser is authorized to receive the content items and the associated content element, wherein the credentials comprise a request signature that uniquely associates the requesting browser with the content elements, wherein during loading of the content element from the server in the content delivery network, the requesting Web browser specifies, for each respective one of the content items, uniform resource locators that include bindings that uniquely associate the content items with the associated content element in a cryptographically secure manner, comprising: the content element identifier; a unique identifier for the respective access-restricted content item that is based on an identifier for the content element, an asset identifier for the respective access-restricted content item, and the trusted credentials; the request signature; and the content item identifier.