Patent ID: 8745654

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving guide data at a user device; displaying the guide data on a display associated with the user device; selecting content from the guide data and forming a selection signal for the content; communicating a digital rights determination signal to a first authentication module in response to selecting; performing a concurrency check on the digital rights determination signal; in response to performing the concurrency check, communicating a query signal from the first authentication module to a second authentication module to determine whether the user device is authorized to receive content associated with the selection signal; when the user device is authorized, communicating an address of a content delivery module for the content from the second authentication module to a digital rights management server through the first authentication module; and communicating a request for the content to a content delivery module using the address of the content delivery module; communicating the content to the user device; and displaying content on the display associated with the user device.