Enhanced Media Platform Authentication via Trusted Location

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional methods for protecting media content distribution services fail to secure communications in advanced infrastructure architectures, exposing them to security risks and preventing the utilization of additional supported functionality.

Innovation Solution

Implementing an enhanced media platform authenticated through a trusted location, establishing a bidirectional trust with a remote datacenter, and using authentication credentials and validation credentials to secure communication, thereby ensuring the security of media content distribution while supporting custom functionality.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional security methods are used to protect media content, then implementation simplicity is maintained, but security reliability deteriorates due to architectural advances in media content distribution service infrastructure

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity reliabilityVSAvoidauthentication mechanism complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The authentication mechanism is segmented into distinct components: authentication credentials, validation credentials, trusted locations, and enhanced remote locations. This segmentation allows each component to perform a specific security function, improving overall security reliability while maintaining manageable complexity through modular design.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Authentication credentials are pre-configured and validated before media content distribution begins. The trusted location validates credentials in advance, establishing security parameters beforehand. This preliminary action ensures security reliability is established before potential threats arise, without adding operational complexity during content delivery.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If enhanced media platforms are deployed in remote locations to support custom functionality, then adaptability improves, but security vulnerability increases due to lack of centralized control

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecustom functionality supportVSAvoidsecurity vulnerability

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

Each enhanced media platform in remote locations is configured with local authentication credentials and security parameters specific to its location and custom functionality requirements. This local quality approach allows adaptability to different remote environments while maintaining security through location-specific validation at the trusted location.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The trusted location acts as an intermediary between the central system and enhanced media platforms in remote locations. It validates authentication credentials and issues validation credentials, mediating security control without requiring direct centralized control over each remote platform. This enables custom functionality while mitigating security vulnerability through the intermediary validation process.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If authentication credentials are validated through a trusted location, then security reliability improves, but communication overhead increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveauthentication securityVSAvoidauthentication time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Authentication credentials are validated by the trusted location in advance, before media content distribution begins. This preliminary validation establishes trust relationships and issues validation credentials upfront, improving authentication security while reducing time loss during actual content delivery operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Once authentication is validated by the trusted location, validation credentials are issued and can be used for subsequent communications. The trusted location creates a copy of the authentication state through validation credentials, allowing multiple communications to occur without repeated full authentication cycles, thereby reducing communication overhead while maintaining security reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentEP3158491B1Securing communications with enhanced media platforms

Publication Date: 2020.02.12 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC

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AI summary

Various methods and systems for securing communications with enhanced media platforms, are provided. In particular, an enhanced media platform is authenticated using a trusted location. The authenticated enhanced media platform establishes a bidirectional trust with an enhanced remote location, the enhanced media platform being stored in the enhanced remote location. Upon authentication and establishing the bidirectional trust, the enhanced media platform may securely communicate media content in a media content distribution service infrastructure while supporting custom functionality. The method for securing communications with enhanced media platforms includes communicating authentication credentials to an internal security component at the trusted location. The method further includes receiving validation credentials from the internal security component. The method also includes authenticating the enhanced remote location based on at least a portion of the validation credentials received. The method further includes establishing the bidirectional trust relationship with the enhanced remote location using the validation credentials.