Patent ID: 8306918
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of accessing media content on a first device associated with a particular user, the method comprising: receiving a first unitary media storage structure with a plurality of protected media portions from a set of servers; receiving a key for each of the plurality of protected media portions that the first device has permission to access from the set of servers, wherein at least one key for at least one protected media portion is received separately from the first unitary media storage structure; storing at least one received key in said first unitary media storage structure at the first device, said at least one received key for accessing a protected media portion that the first device has permission to access; determining whether a second device of the particular user has permission to access the plurality of protected media portions from the first unitary media storage structure stored on the first device; removing at least one protected media portion from the first unitary media storage structure, wherein the protected media portion that is removed is a particular protected media portion that the second device does not have permission to access; and from the first device, providing to the second device a second unitary media storage structure that includes the plurality of protected media portions from the first unitary media storage structure except the at least one protected media portion that was removed from the first unitary media storage structure, wherein the receiving the first unitary media storage structure and keys, storing, determining, removing, and providing are performed by the first device.