Patent ID: 11863540
Assignee: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause:
receiving, by a computing device associated with a content distribution network, a request for a content segment associated with an item of content;
generating, by the computing device, for the content segment:
one or more encrypted portions of the content segment that are encrypted in an encryption format compatible with a user device that is an intended recipient for the content segment, wherein the encryption format is determined to be compatible with the user device based on the user device being associated with a key enabling the user device to decrypt the one or more encrypted portions of the content segment when encrypted in the encryption format, and
an unencrypted portion of content indicating timing information for the one or more encrypted portions of the content segment; and

sending, by the computing device and to the user device, the unencrypted portion of content and the one or more encrypted portions of the content segment.