Adobe Pass Case Study
3. What is Adobe Pass
Adobe® Pass securely mediates entitlement transactions between Programmers and Pay TV providers, facilitating viewer access to subscription content. Or, in other words...
Adobe Pass makes it easy and quick for the right customers to access the right content.
Adobe Pass is for:
• Programmers who want to easily integrate with Pay TV providers (also known as "MVPDs" or "Multichannel Video Programming Distributors"), reaching the widest audience, for optimal revenue. Using Adobe Pass, Programmers can authenticate viewers across all major providers, independent of client platform.
• Pay TV providers/MVPDs who seek painless connectivity with multiple Programmers and higher customer satisfaction by facilitating access to subscription …show more content…
How much does Adobe Pass for TV Everywhere cost for end users?
There is no additional cost to end users for use of Adobe Pass.
5. Architecture of Adobe Pass
The following discusses the central entitlement transactions of authentication and authorization. Authentication is the process of confirming with a Pay TV provider that a given user is a known customer. Authorization is the process wherein a Pay TV provider confirms that an authenticated user has a valid subscription to a given resource.
The Adobe Pass backend server, hosted by Adobe:
• Provisions the authentication and authorization workflows with the Pay TV providers that require server-to-server communication between Adobe Pass and the operator.
• Maintains the configuration for Programmer sites and applications.
• Hosts the downloadable Access Enabler component files.
• Generates authentication and authorization tokens.
6. Integrating with Adobe Pass
Whether you are a Pay TV provider or Programmer, the process of integrating with Adobe Pass requires some amount of your active participation. Each of these processes is described …show more content…
These tasks include:
• integrating Adobe Pass's Access Enabler library into your web page or media player
• server-side work to integrate the Adobe Pass token verifier component into your video streaming workflow
• creating a UI for the access workflow into your website or app (some elements of this, such as the actual login process, are provided by the Pay TV operator, and some elements are optionally available as part of Adobe Pass)
This white paper provides an overview of the Programmer process.
7. User Workflow
When a customer requests a protected resource from a Programmer for the first time, the Programmer uses the Access Enabler to present the customer with a list of Pay TV providers from which to choose. When the provider is selected, the Access Enabler then redirects the customer to that operator for initial user authentication. Once authentication succeeds, Adobe Pass communicates with the selected Pay TV provider to authorize access to the specified resource. Details on these processes
Adobe® Pass securely mediates entitlement transactions between Programmers and Pay TV providers, facilitating viewer access to subscription content. Or, in other words...
Adobe Pass makes it easy and quick for the right customers to access the right content.
Adobe Pass is for:
• Programmers who want to easily integrate with Pay TV providers (also known as "MVPDs" or "Multichannel Video Programming Distributors"), reaching the widest audience, for optimal revenue. Using Adobe Pass, Programmers can authenticate viewers across all major providers, independent of client platform.
• Pay TV providers/MVPDs who seek painless connectivity with multiple Programmers and higher customer satisfaction by facilitating access to subscription …show more content…
How much does Adobe Pass for TV Everywhere cost for end users?
There is no additional cost to end users for use of Adobe Pass.
5. Architecture of Adobe Pass
The following discusses the central entitlement transactions of authentication and authorization. Authentication is the process of confirming with a Pay TV provider that a given user is a known customer. Authorization is the process wherein a Pay TV provider confirms that an authenticated user has a valid subscription to a given resource.
The Adobe Pass backend server, hosted by Adobe:
• Provisions the authentication and authorization workflows with the Pay TV providers that require server-to-server communication between Adobe Pass and the operator.
• Maintains the configuration for Programmer sites and applications.
• Hosts the downloadable Access Enabler component files.
• Generates authentication and authorization tokens.
6. Integrating with Adobe Pass
Whether you are a Pay TV provider or Programmer, the process of integrating with Adobe Pass requires some amount of your active participation. Each of these processes is described …show more content…
These tasks include:
• integrating Adobe Pass's Access Enabler library into your web page or media player
• server-side work to integrate the Adobe Pass token verifier component into your video streaming workflow
• creating a UI for the access workflow into your website or app (some elements of this, such as the actual login process, are provided by the Pay TV operator, and some elements are optionally available as part of Adobe Pass)
This white paper provides an overview of the Programmer process.
7. User Workflow
When a customer requests a protected resource from a Programmer for the first time, the Programmer uses the Access Enabler to present the customer with a list of Pay TV providers from which to choose. When the provider is selected, the Access Enabler then redirects the customer to that operator for initial user authentication. Once authentication succeeds, Adobe Pass communicates with the selected Pay TV provider to authorize access to the specified resource. Details on these processes