Patent ID: 9084031
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. On a content consumption device, a method of content license storage, the method comprising: holding, in a temporary license store on the content consumption device, a plurality of content licenses for a plurality of content streams, each content license of the plurality of content licenses including a removal date; determining if a content stream is designated for archived playback; for each content license of the plurality of content licenses corresponding to only the content stream of the plurality of content streams which is designated for archived playback, copying that content license from the temporary license store into an embedded license store within the content stream to form an archived content stream, while maintaining that content license in the temporary license store; removing one or more content licenses corresponding to the content stream designated for archived playback held at the temporary license store if the removal date included in the one or more content licenses has been reached, while leaving each content license stored within the archived content stream for as long as the archived content is designated for archived playback and even if the removal date has been reached; receiving a playback request to play an archived content stream that includes a copied content license within an embedded license store of that archived content stream; and presenting the archived content stream even if a removal date included in the copied content license for the archived content stream has been reached.