Patent ID: 8935796
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A device comprising: storage that stores audio-video digital content to be processed by the device, the device is a first device; an enforcement mechanism that enforces a content protection scheme that restricts certain actions from be performed with respect to the audio-video digital content, the certain actions include copying and distributing the audio-video digital content; and a segment based protection scheme mechanism that divides the audio-video digital content into a group of protected segments for which the certain actions are prohibited and a group of unprotected segments for which the certain actions are permitted; the enforcement mechanism allows a first action of the certain actions with respect to a portion of the audio-video digital content to be attempted if the portion is entirely within a first segment of the unprotected segments and prevents the first action from being attempted if the portion is within a protected segment, the first action is sending an identifier to a remote device that is not authorized to play the entire audio-video digital content to obtain a version of the first segment.