Patent ID: 9654456
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for providing digital rights management at a service level, the method comprising: providing content to an access device from a content delivery platform, wherein the content is not accompanied by digital rights; providing information about digital rights for the provided content to the access device from the content delivery platform, wherein: receiving, at the content delivery platform, a request for digital rights, the request being related to the access device accessing the content previously provided to the access device from the content delivery platform, the request being generated by and sent from the access device to the address from the information about the digital rights previously provided to the access device from the content delivery platform; intercepting, by the URL proxy of the content delivery platform, the request; determining, by the URL proxy of the content delivery platform, that the access device is authorized to access the digital rights for the content; redirecting, by the URL proxy of the content delivery platform, the request as received from the access device from the content delivery platform to a digital rights server such that the access device does not know where the digital rights are stored; processing the request, at the digital rights server, to create a digital rights object for the content using the address of the URL proxy of the content delivery platform to which the request was sent, wherein the address of the URL proxy of the content delivery system is previously stored at the digital rights server; and providing the digital rights object from the digital rights server to the access device such that the access device can access the content by treating the digital rights object as content itself by the access device.