Patent ID: 8250362

Claim:
A method for use in a premises based multimedia communication system having at least one source device that produces multimedia content, at least one rendering device that presents the multimedia content, and at least one premises communication network coupling the source device to the rendering device, the method comprising: certifying transfer of the multimedia content from the source device to the rendering device via the at least one premises communication network using link layer encryption operations; after certification of the transfer of the multimedia content from the source device to the rendering device via the at least one premises communication network using link layer encryption operations, at least partially disabling the link layer encryption operations for the transfer of the multimedia content from the source device to the rendering device via the at least one premises communication network; and when the link layer encryption operations are at least partially disabled, at least partially enabling content layer encryption operations for the transfer of the multimedia content from the source device to the rendering device via the at least one premises communication network.