Patent ID: 8635657

Claim:
A method for authenticated broadcast transmission utilizing a content retransmitter, the method comprising: receiving information for multiple broadcast receivers from a user at a content retransmitter, wherein the information includes at least a network address and a user for each of the multiple broadcast receivers, wherein the content retransmitter is operable to retransmit programming received from a programming receiver to an associated device; forming an authorized broadcast receiver list, utilizing the content retransmitter, by: transmitting an authentication prompt from the content retransmitter to each of the multiple broadcast receivers; receiving user authentication information at the content retransmitter from each of the multiple broadcast receivers; and adding each of the multiple broadcast receivers to the authorized broadcast receiver list after verifying the user for each of the multiple broadcast receivers by comparing the user authentication information received from the respective broadcast receiver with stored user information; requesting and receiving a respective encryption key from each of the multiple broadcast receivers on the authorized broadcast receiver list; receiving content at the content retransmitter; encrypting the received content using the respective encryption key from each of the multiple broadcast receivers, resulting in encrypted content; and broadcasting the encrypted content from the content retransmitter to a plurality of the multiple broadcast receivers on the authorized broadcast receiver list.