Patent ID: 7143290

Claim:
A system including: a first apparatus including user controls, a communications port, a processor, a memory containing a first rule, and a first secure container containing an audio file, said audio file including steganographically encoded information, the first secure container having associated a second rule, the second rule governing, at least in part, access to or other use of at least a portion of the audio file; hardware and/or software used for receiving and opening secure containers, said secure containers each including the capacity to contain at least one governed item, at least one rule being associated with each of said secure containers; a protected processing environment at least in part protecting at least some information contained in said protected processing environment from tampering by a user of said first apparatus, said protected processing environment including hardware and/or software used for applying said first rule and said second rule in combination to at least in part govern at least one aspect of access to or use of said audio file; and hardware and/or software used for transmission of secure containers to other apparatuses and/or for the receipt of secure containers from other apparatuses.