Patent ID: 8973089
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: establishing, by a computing system, a non-secure socket connection with a policy file server; requesting, by the computing system, a socket policy file via the non-secure socket connection; receiving, by the computing system, a placeholder socket policy file in response to said request via the non-secure socket connection, wherein the placeholder socket policy file specifies to request the socket policy file via a first secure socket connection; in response to said receiving the placeholder socket policy file, establishing, by the computing system, the first secure socket connection with the policy file server; requesting, by the computing system configured by media content, the socket policy file from the policy file server via the first secure socket connection, wherein the socket policy file specifies a security policy governing socket connections for accessing additional media content on a content server over a transport protocol layer, wherein the security policy identifies (i) domains from which secure socket connections are required to communicate with the content server and (ii) domains from which non-secure socket connections are permitted to communicate with the content server; receiving, by the computing system, the socket policy file via the first secure socket connection; identifying, by the computing system, that the security policy requires communication with the content server via a second secure socket connection; and communicating, by the computing system, with the content server via the second secure socket connection to access the additional media content.