Patent ID: 8850498

Claim:
A portable media-on-demand (MOD) contents distribution apparatus comprising: a media input receiver configured to receive and process an incoming encrypted and encoded media stream from a remote distribution source, the media input receiver comprising: a media-input interface adaptable to communicate with and to receive the incoming media stream from the remote distribution source; and a media-input processor configured to decompress and verify user access information of the incoming media stream; an adaptive transcoder for processing the incoming media stream received by the media input receiver configured to determine the bit rate of the media stream and to decompress the incoming media stream, thereby generating a processed media stream; a media output component; a communication processor coupled to the media input receiver and the adaptive transcoder, the communications processor being configured to manipulate the processed media stream to produce a transmission-ready stream; and a media-output interface adaptable to communicate with the media output component, the media-output interface coupled to the communications processor, the media output component configured to stream transmission-ready stream to a media output device for transmitting to a viewing device; and a multi-processor device distribution manager; comprising: a device distribution management platform; a computer-readable medium having stored therein data representing the processed media stream, wherein the computer-readable medium is in communication with the adaptive transcoder; and a processor in communication with the computer-readable medium, the processor having stored therein computer-executable code to manage distribution of the processed media stream.