There is disclosed a system for providing streaming services, comprising: a plurality of capture devices, each for capturing data and providing a captured data stream; and a server, for receiving the plurality of captured data streams; wherein each capture device is configured to generate metadata for the captured data, and transmit said metadata to the server.

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate measures of unique audiences for Internet-based media. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes at least one memory, instructions, and at least one processor. The processor to execute the instructions to: receive first HyperLogLog (HLL) data from a first server of a first database proprietor and second HyperLogLog (HLL) data from a second server of a second database proprietor, the first HLL data including obfuscated first user impression data and the second HLL data including obfuscated second user impression data; generate union HLL data based on the first HLL data from the first database proprietor and the second HLL data from the second database proprietor by performing a union of data sets of the obfuscated first user impression data represented in the first HLL data and the obfuscated second user impression data represented in the second HLL data; and determine a total number of deduplicated unique audience members based on the union HLL data generated by the vector analyzer.

Tools are provided for distributing access-restricted content in an internet protocol television (“IPTV”) environment based on portable entitlement keys. Such tools can include a decoder, an encoder, and a network entitlement handler. The decoder may be configured to receive a key associated with entitlement information, and transmit the entitlement information over a network. The encoder may be configured to receive content from content providers, and to encode the content to create IP-compatible content, with access restrictions based on entitlement. The network entitlement handler may be configured to receive a request for requested content from the decoder; receive the access-restricted content (including the requested content) from the encoder; and transmit the requested content over the network to the decoder using IP, when the decoder is entitled to receive the requested content.

A media device receives a domain key from a service provider. The media device further encrypts media with a media key and encrypts the media key with the domain key to form an encrypted media token: the protected media key is encapsulated in an encrypted media token. The service provider may then receive the encrypted media token and one or more receiving entity identifiers relating to a receiving entity and ascertain whether the receiving entity is entitled to access media from the media device. If the receiving entity is entitled to access media from the media device, the service provider decrypts the cryptographic media token using the domain key to obtain the media key and providing the media key to the receiving entity. As such, an authenticated receiving entity may obtain the media key necessary to decrypt the media. Moreover, there is no requirement for any intermediate entity to have similar access and thus the encryption provided by the media key is in place throughout the transport of the media from media device to receiving entity.

Provided is a method for protecting an encrypted control word. The method includes: receiving a hardware security module entitlement management message and an encrypted control word transmitted from a main chip, where the hardware security module entitlement management message includes a key for decrypting the encrypted control word; decrypting, based on the hardware security module entitlement management message and a hardware security module root key stored in the hardware security module, the encrypted control word to obtain a control word; reencrypting the control word based on a re-encryption key stored in the hardware security module to obtain a reencrypted control word; and transmitting the reencrypted control word to the main chip, so that the main chip decrypts, based on a main chip entitlement management message transmitted from the front end, the reencrypted control word to obtain the control word.

A controller receives an encrypted media stream (“EMS”) and an identifier indicative of a selected content key from a headend. The EMS is encrypted with an encryption key and can be decrypted with a corresponding decryption key which is determinable from the selected content key. The controller receives indexes and content keys from the headend prior to receiving the EMS. Each index respectively corresponds to an identifier with one index corresponding to the identifier indicative of the selected content key. The content keys correspond to the indexes with one content key corresponding to the index corresponding to the identifier indicative of the selected content key. The controller selects the index corresponding to the identifier indicative of the selected content key upon receiving the EMS, determines the selected content key from the selected index, determines the decryption key from the selected content key, and decrypts the EMS with the decryption key.

The technology described herein is directed towards content rights data that are associated with content (a data item) to make that content selectively available or unavailable in responses by a data service to client requests. A client includes client content rights data in association with each request, (e.g., via a token), and the data service uses that client content rights data as query parameters (constraint criteria) in making a request for a data item. Client content rights data also may be used for accessing cached data. Availability constraints may include client location, brand, channel, device class and time (commence and cease).

In some implementations, a system is capable of managing keys for encrypting media streams over UDP communications between a media source and an associated server. A key is initially generated for encrypting a media stream captured by a media source device associated with a monitoring system of a property. A first instruction is provided to the media source device and over a secure communication channel. The first instruction causes the media source device to encrypt the media stream using the key when received by the media source device. A second instruction is generated for decrypting the encrypted media stream. The second instruction is provided to a computing device associated with the property. The second instruction causes the computing device to decrypt the encrypted media stream when received by the computing device.

A method of session-based DASH operations can include receiving a media presentation description (MPD) referencing a session-based description (SBD) and indicating a key name during a media access session. The SBD includes a first repeating pattern element that includes a first sequence of timed key values of the key name. The first repeating pattern element indicates that the first sequence of the timed key values of the key name is repeated along a timeline or an orderline. A first key value of the key name corresponding to a timing or a segment number of a current segment of a sequence of segments can be determined based on the first repeating pattern element in the SBD. A request for the current segment can be transmitted to a media content server. The request includes a pair of the key name and the first key value.

A content viewing method uses a viewing system including a content distribution server distributing contents, a mobile information terminal, and a viewing device reproducing a content. The mobile information terminal transmits user identification information and a user password to the content distribution server. The content distribution server authenticates the mobile information terminal based on the user identification information and the user password. The mobile information terminal transmits an account issue request requesting an account for reproducing a desired content to the content distribution server. The content distribution server issues the account based on the account issue request and transmits the account to the mobile information terminal. The mobile information terminal stores the account. The mobile information terminal transmits the account by short-range wireless communication. The viewing device stores the account received by short-range wireless communication. The viewing device reproduces the desired content using the stored account.