Patent ID: 7370268

Claim:
A method for managing content rich data residing on a removable memory apparatus that has been inserted into a handheld device, comprising: locking the content rich data residing on the removable memory apparatus such that said content rich data is not permitted to be erased by a user of said handheld device; establishing a connection between the removable memory apparatus and the handheld device; searching, by a program residing on the removable memory apparatus, for at least one content cookie having a counter that is programmed into memory residing within the handheld device upon having established said connection; installing at least one content cookie, having a counter, from the removable memory apparatus onto the handheld device if no content cookie was found when searching for the content cookie; searching within the handheld device for a content player enabled to present the content rich data; detecting the absence of a content player enabled to present the content rich data within the handheld device; installing a content player enabled to present the content rich data in response to detecting the absence of a content player enabled to present the content rich data existing on the handheld device; launching the content player enabled to present the content rich data; presenting the content rich data within the handheld device via the content player; and decrementing the counter of the content cookie wherein upon reaching a predetermined value by decrementing the counter of said content cookie, the content rich data is automatically removed from the handheld device.