Abstract: Embodiments herein provide a blockchain based platform and method for assessment and verification of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) across a software supply chain life cycle using blockchain. The method comprising generating the SBOM automatically from a software source code to automate governance of a software asset using blockchain smart contracts, publishing the generated SBOMs to a permissioned blockchain through secure publish, automatically recording timestamps and ownership stamps to the published SBOM's, analysing the software asset for supply chain information to verify if the software asset meets the minimum policy requirements for compliance based on provenance, licensing, vulnerability and security criteria set by the company, determining if a third-party software component is approved for use in the company's applications based on policy and compliance rules and identifying current vulnerabilities and potential remediation for software in use by the company.

Abstract: A subscriber video player for use in a communication network that communicates with a plurality of video content servers that provide a plurality of video files for download to a subscriber. The subscriber video player comprises: 1) a storage medium for storing selected ones of the plurality of video files downloaded from the plurality of video content servers; 2) a first controller for receiving inputs from a first subscriber using the subscriber video player; and 3) a browser application coupled to the first controller and responsive to the inputs from the first subscriber, the browser application for accessing the video content servers and retrieving therefrom web page data associated with the plurality of video files and displaying the web page data on a display screen coupled to the subscriber video player.