Patent ID: 8635657
Filing Date: 2014-01-21
Classification: H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for authenticated broadcast transmission utilizing a content retransmitter, the method comprising: receiving information for multiple broadcast receivers from a user at a content retransmitter, wherein the information includes at least a network address and a user for each of the multiple broadcast receivers, wherein the content retransmitter is operable to retransmit programming received from a programming receiver to an associated device; forming an authorized broadcast receiver list, utilizing the content retransmitter, by: requesting and receiving a respective encryption key from each of the multiple broadcast receivers on the authorized broadcast receiver list; receiving content at the content retransmitter; encrypting the received content using the respective encryption key from each of the multiple broadcast receivers, resulting in encrypted content; and broadcasting the encrypted content from the content retransmitter to a plurality of the multiple broadcast receivers on the authorized broadcast receiver list.