Patent ID: 8488788

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a processor to control operations of the apparatus; an input that is to receive scrambled content; a descrambler unit coupled to the input and to the processor, the descrambler unit descrambles the scrambled content in order to recover unscrambled content and concurrently routes the unscrambled content over a first communication link for display on a display device and routes the unscrambled content over a second communication link, wherein the descrambler unit descrambles the scrambled content by producing a first key to descramble a first control word, and thereafter, using the first control word to descramble the scrambled content and recover the unscrambled content; and a re-scrambler unit coupled to the second communication link and to the processor, the re-scrambler unit to scramble the unscrambled content to produce re-scrambled content for transmission from the apparatus, wherein the re-scrambler unit scrambled the unscrambled content using information within an entitlement control message (ECM), the ECM being part of the program data including the scrambled content received by the input.