Patent ID: 9485804
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A gateway interconnecting a first network to a second network comprising: an offload engine that is implemented in a cross-layer architecture enabling communication between non-adjacent layers in a protocol stack of the gateway; a data cache associated with the offload engine; a network interface communicatively coupling the offload engine to the first network and providing a first data rate; an interface associated with the offload engine and adapted to communicate with a plurality of user devices within the second network, the interface providing a second data rate that is less than the first data rate; wherein the offload engine is adapted to: a rule check engine adapted to inspect the content from the first network based upon at least one rule prior to transmitting the content to the corresponding one of the plurality of user devices in the second network, wherein the at least one rule comprises at least one Digital Rights Management (DRM) rule; and a DRM function initiated by the rule check engine based on the at least one DRM rule, wherein: