Patent ID: 7636860
Filing Date: 2009-12-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a tamper resistant digital content recovery module to recover protected digital contents of various types, the recovery module employing measures to hinder observation of operations performed therein; a plurality of plain text digital content rendering modules communicatively coupled with each other in a hierarchical manner forming a hierarchy of modules, with selective combinations of the plain text digital content rendering modules to be selectively employed to render the recovered digital contents of the various types, including one of the plain text digital content rendering modules occupying a root position of the hierarchy to exclusively receive all types of the recovered digital contents to be rendered, from the tamper resistant digital content recovery module; one or more storage units operative to store said tamper resistant module and said plurality of plain text digital content rendering modules; and a processor coupled with the one or more storage units to execute the tamper resistant module and the plurality of plain text digital content rendering modules.