Patent ID: 8555367

Claim:
A method comprising the steps of: receiving, by a processor, a request for access to a selected, secured data resource comprising a media item from an end user device, the request comprising an authorization ticket generated by a referring website that facilitates the selection of the media item, the authorization ticket is generated using an identifier of the selected media item; validating, by the processor, the authorization ticket; validating, by the processor, the referring website; automatically selecting, by the processor, additional media clips to be transmitted to the end user device with the selected media item identified in the authorization ticket, the additional media clips not identified in the request; obtaining, by the processor from the authorization ticket, the identifier of the selected media item on the data server; selecting, by the processor, one or more data servers to service the request for access to the selected media item based on the identifier from the authorization ticket and respective identifiers of the additional media clips associated with the selected media item; generating, by the processor, a plurality of second authorization tickets using identifying information of the selected data servers wherein at least one of the second authorization tickets comprises the identifier of the selected media item on the data server obtained from the authorization ticket; formatting, by the processor, a plurality of data server access requests, the data server access requests comprising the second authorization tickets, data server locations and data server request parameter data wherein at least one of the data server access requests comprises the identifier for the selected media item; and transmitting, by the processor, the data server access requests to the end user device.