Patent ID: 9705890
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for establishing media pathways of varying security levels in a media processing device having a plurality of selectable pathway components relating to operational nodes of a media pathway, the method comprising: establishing a first media pathway utilizing a first set of selectable pathway components of the media processing device that includes a first set of software components and a first set of hardware components, the first media pathway conforming to a first level of security; performing media processing operations over the first media pathway; terminating the media processing operations over the first media pathway; dynamically establishing a second media pathway utilizing a second set of selectable pathway components of the media processing device that includes a second set of software components and a second set of hardware components, the second media pathway conforming to a level of security that is consistent with the first level of security, the first set of software components differing from the second set of software components by at least one software component and the first set of hardware components differing from the second set of hardware components by at least one hardware component; and resuming the terminated media processing operations over the second media pathway.