Patent ID: 8631430

Claim:
A method, comprising: at a home network gateway, receiving an ordered stream of selectively multiple encrypted main content that is broadcast over a Multiple Service Operator's (MSO) network and contains duplicate content that is encrypted using multiple conditional access (CA) encryption methods including a legacy encryption method; at the home network gateway, sending the ordered stream of selectively multiple encrypted main content to an attached point of deployment (POD) card; at the POD card, decrypting the legacy encrypted portion of the ordered stream of selectively multiple encrypted main content to produce a decrypted stream of content; at the POD card, packet swapping any duplicate content that is not decrypted; at the POD card, removing any duplicate content that is not DRM encrypted and generating a selectively multiple DRM encrypted stream of content from the legacy decrypted stream of content by encrypting selected critical packets of the decrypted stream of content and providing DRM encrypted critical packets having a different packet identifier than the duplicate content that is not decrypted, where the DRM encryption comprises a specified type of DRM; at the POD card, sending only the selectively multiple DRM encrypted stream of content to the home network gateway, and at the home network gateway, providing the selectively multiple DRM encrypted stream as an output signal through a home network interface forming a part of the home network gateway to a plurality of player devices on a home network for consumption by the plurality of player devices having the ability to packet swap, consume and decrypt the selectively multiple DRM encrypted stream of content of the specified type of DRM residing on the home entertainment network.