Patent ID: 8195782

Claim:
A portable storage device for input, output, use, and management of multimedia content, the portable storage device comprising: a portable storage unit for downloading the multimedia content in at least one multimedia format; at least one interface for transferring the multimedia content to and from the portable storage unit; a display in communication with a control key pad for facilitating the control and navigation of the multimedia content in the portable storage unit; a processing unit for uploading the multimedia content from the portable storage unit to at least one of a plurality of multimedia equipment devices that are capable of rendering the multimedia content; and a transcoder unit for decoding/encoding and converting the multimedia content between a first multimedia format and a second multimedia format of the at least one of the plurality of multimedia equipment devices, wherein the portable storage unit is configured to download the multimedia content from a multimedia facility comprising a content server, wherein the multimedia facility is configured to enable a purchase of the multimedia content locally stored in the content server, wherein the content server is not coupled to the multimedia facility via an Internet connection and is configured to output the multimedia content without using an Internet connection, wherein the portable storage unit is further configured to interface with a multimedia content distributor via a first interface, wherein the multimedia content distributor is configured to interface with the at least one of the plurality of multimedia equipment devices via a second interface for transferring the multimedia content to be rendered from the portable storage unit to the at least one of the plurality of multimedia equipment devices, wherein the first interface uses a different communication protocol than the second interface, wherein the content server retrieves the multimedia content from an external content server via a network when the multimedia content is unavailable in a directory of purchasable content stored in the content server, wherein the multimedia content enables a digital rights management system for generating a usage license, and an error-correction code adapted to protect a legitimate use of the multimedia content, and wherein the digital rights management system generates the usage license by generating rights object using information about characteristics of the at least one of the plurality of multimedia equipment devices along with relevant information from content metadata and packaging the rights object with the multimedia content such that the generated usage license is sent to the device that is to render the multimedia content.