Patent ID: 9307289
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A portable device to deliver video content to at least one media player device, the portable data processing system comprising: a transcoder configured to receive video content and to transcode the received video content into a format that is suitable for delivery to the at least one media player device over a personal wireless network; a data interface; a data storage configured to store the transcoded video content; a wireless network interface configured to provide a wireless access point to the personal wireless network; and a processor configured to receive a digital credential identifying the at least one media player device via the data interface, wherein the digital credential is issued by an authenticator service accessible via a wide area network separate from the personal wireless network, to store the digital credential received from the authenticator service, to receive subsequent connection requests comprising digital credentials from the at least one media player device via the personal wireless network and, in response to the subsequent connection requests, to verify that the media player is authorized to receive the transcoded video content even though a connection to the authenticator service is no longer available and to deliver the transcoded video content to the at least one media player device via the personal wireless network if the digital credentials received from the at least one media player device via the personal wireless network match the digital credentials previously received from the authenticator service via the wide area network, and to otherwise not deliver the transcoded video content to the at least one media player device via the personal wireless network, and to repeat the verifying and delivering for other media player devices to thereby simultaneously deliver multiple video streams of the transcoded video content from the portable device to multiple media player devices via the personal wireless network.