creator Davids, Carol creator Dorst, Gary creator Kousky, Ken creator Yahnes, Gene A method of securing against an unauthorized transmission within an authorized multimedia transmission from a sending data processor to a receiving data processor. The method includes altering the network transmission to interfere with the unauthorized transmission and render the unauthorized transmission invalid to the receiving data processor while not noticeably interfering with the streaming multimedia transmission. Monitoring for retransmissions or retransmission requests also serves as an indicator to an administrator that an unauthorized transmission is occurring. The method of this invention can be implemented by network administrator middleboxes such as firewalls. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2013-06-18T16:00:24Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1089 bytes, checksum: 0a703d871bf062c5fdc7850b1496693b (MD5) 8453241.pdf: 124291 bytes, checksum: a83849c0cb71670883f699cb77844ff6 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-06-18T16:00:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1089 bytes, checksum: 0a703d871bf062c5fdc7850b1496693b (MD5) 8453241.pdf: 124291 bytes, checksum: a83849c0cb71670883f699cb77844ff6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-28 Illinois Institute of Technology 2013-05-29 2013-05-28 8,453,241 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/3004 en CC0 1.0 Universal http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access