Patent ID: 9547756
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A client device, comprising: a microprocessor; an operating system operable, when executed by the microprocessor, to control operations of the client device; a first streaming content application operable with the operating system to request content from a content delivery network, and to determine that the content requires a signed device identifier, wherein the signed device identifier is an authentication of the client device by a Digital Rights Management (DRM) server; a DRM module operable to generate the device identifier, to transmit the device identifier to the DRM server, and to process the signed device identifier from the DRM server, to register the signed device identifier with an application server that is operable to verify the signed device identifier, wherein the first streaming content application is further operable to process a grant from the application server based on the signed device identifier, and to transfer the grant to the content delivery network to retrieve the requested content: and a second streaming content application operable to generate a request for another content from the content delivery network, to configure the request with the signed device identifier, and to retrieve the other content from the content delivery network upon authentication by the application server.