Patent ID: 8281407

Claim:
A method for printing media content, the media content being stored in encrypted form in a computing device, the method comprising: receiving, from the computing device, at an intermediate device located between the computing device and a printing device, a file of print commands, the file of print commands including the media content in encrypted form and non-encrypted content; sending the non-encrypted content included in the file of print commands from the intermediate device to the printing device; determining in the intermediate device if the media content is authorized to be printed; decrypting in the intermediate device the media content in encrypted form that corresponds to the media content that is authorized to be printed using a decryption key stored in the intermediate device to produce decrypted media content; sending the decrypted media content from the intermediate device to the printing device; and printing at the printing device the media content based on the non-encrypted content and decrypted media content received from the intermediate device.