Patent ID: 8000474

Claim:
A system comprising: a) a control system adapted to: i) receive a request to record multimedia content; and ii) determine whether recording of the multimedia content is restricted; b) a network interface adapted to: i) receive the multimedia content from a content server; and ii) receive a plurality of hybrid I-Frames that are low-loss versions of a corresponding subset of I-Frames of the multimedia content; c) a decryption function adapted to decrypt the multimedia content to provide decrypted multimedia content for real-time playback; and d) an encryption function adapted to, if recording of the multimedia content is restricted: i) re-encrypt the decrypted multimedia content to provide re-encrypted multimedia content; and ii) store the re-encrypted multimedia content, wherein a separate system obtains the re-encrypted multimedia content and enforces a rights policy of the multimedia content before releasing the multimedia content for non-real-time playback.