Patent ID: 8180200

Claim:
A method of preventing trick play through an audiovisual asset in a system employing digital video compression with at least a plurality of substantially complete frames and a plurality of substantially intermediate frames, said method comprising the steps of: obtaining, at a hardware processor located in a first node of a communications network, a digitally compressed audiovisual asset, said asset being compressed in accordance with a compression technique employing at least said plurality of substantially complete frames and said plurality of substantially intermediate frames; responsive to a determination that trick play is to be prevented for at least a portion of said asset, substantially removing, using said hardware processor in said first node of said communications network, said plurality of substantially complete frames from said portion of said asset; and streaming said asset, with said plurality of substantially complete frames substantially removed from said portion thereof, to a user thereof, over said communications network, said user being located at a second node of said communications network.