Patent ID: 8850183

Claim:
An interconnect for connecting a source device to a destination device to facilitate delivery of media content that is associated with a rights management restriction, comprising: a plurality of communication interfaces, at least one of which provides a connection from the interconnect to a media interface of the destination device; and a control system associated with the plurality of communication interfaces and adapted to: receive from the source device via one of the plurality of communication interfaces first information indicating first media content to be delivered from the source device to the destination device is associated with the rights management restriction; in response to receiving the first information from the source device indicating that the first media content to be delivered from the source device to the destination device is associated with the rights management restriction, determine whether the media interface of the destination device is compliant with the rights management restriction associated with the first media content; and if the media interface of the destination device is determined to be compliant with the rights management restriction associated with the first media content: send to the source device via one of the plurality of communication interfaces second information indicating that the media interface of the destination device is compliant with the rights management restriction associated with the first media content; and in response to sending the second information to the source device: receive from the source device via one of the plurality of communication interfaces encrypted media content, which is the first media content encrypted based on compliance encryption information; decrypt the encrypted media content to provide unencrypted media content; encrypt the unencrypted media content based on rights management encryption information associated with the media interface of the destination device to provide re-encrypted media content; and deliver the re-encrypted media content to the media interface of the destination device via one of the plurality of communication interfaces.