Patent ID: 9621940
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method of providing digital streaming content to a user of a content distribution network, the method comprising: receiving a request for a digital content element, the request originated from the user and generated by a computerized apparatus of the user in data communication with the content distribution network; based at least in part on the received request, causing transmission of the digital content element to a storage location of a multi-user partitioned cloud-based storage apparatus accessible to the user; enabling an entitlement check comprising a determination that the user is permitted access to the digital content element; based at least on the determination, storing a data element comprising data indicating the user is entitled to access the digital content element, the data element configured to be used for only a prescribed number of subsequent requests for the access to the digital content element; sending the data element to a network entity of the content distribution network for each of the subsequent requests that originate from a device associated with the user; forming a trusted domain between the client device associated with the user and one or more other client devices; and subsequent to the causing transmission, making the stored digital content element available for presentation to only the user and each of the one or more other client devices via delivery over the content distribution network to the computerized apparatus; wherein the storage location is interlocked between the client device associated with the user and the one or more other client devices that are within the trusted domain, such that the digital content element cannot be accessed by the one or more other client devices until the client device has completed access of the digital content element.