Token-Based Secure Content Streaming for Dynamic IP Handling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content streaming technologies face challenges in securely accessing and distributing content across multiple IP addresses, leading to unauthorized access and frustrating interruptions for legitimate users due to rigid IP-address validation and limitations in handling dynamic IP changes.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of an automatic token-based secure content streaming method, where a secure token is generated and associated with a user's IP address, allowing authorized access and download of content across multiple IP addresses while minimizing unauthorized access by validating the token's expiration and IP address matching.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If rigid IP-address validation is used to prevent unauthorized access, then security is improved, but legitimate users experience frustrating interruptions when their IP address changes
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts IP address validation by allowing a configurable number of IP address changes during an active content access session. Instead of rigidly binding content to a single IP address, the system permits transitions between multiple IP addresses while maintaining security through token validation and mismatch counting mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the validation parameter from strict IP address matching to a more flexible mismatch counter approach. The mismatch counter tracks the number of IP address changes and compares it against a threshold, allowing the system to adapt security validation based on the degree of deviation from the original IP address rather than requiring exact matches.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple IP addresses are allowed for content access, then user flexibility is improved, but unauthorized access becomes more difficult to prevent
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms through the mismatch counter that monitors and tracks IP address changes in real-time. Each time the IP address changes, the counter increments, and this feedback is used to determine whether to grant or deny access based on whether the threshold has been exceeded. This continuous monitoring and feedback loop enables the system to respond dynamically to potential unauthorized access attempts.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary validation by checking the mismatch counter threshold before granting content access. By evaluating whether the number of IP address mismatches exceeds the threshold in advance of content delivery, the system prevents unauthorized access before it can occur, rather than reacting after unauthorized access has already happened.
3Reliability
If strict IP address matching is enforced, then unauthorized access is prevented, but legitimate users moving between locations experience access interruptions
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically permits IP address changes during an active session by allowing a configurable number of mismatches. This dynamic approach enables users to move between geographic locations and use different network connections while maintaining continuous access to content, as long as the number of IP address changes remains within the allowed threshold.
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AI summary
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in secure content access, distribution and download and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide systems and methods for automatic token-based secure content streaming.