Patent ID: 8752199

Claim:
A method comprising: establishing a device for playing content, the content being constituted of a set of data, the set of data being partitioned into a first portion of the data and a second portion of the data; receiving the first portion of the data by a user inserting a physical removable storage media into the device, wherein the first portion of the data is stored on the physical removable storage media without the second portion of the data being stored on the physical removable storage media before being distributed to the user; receiving the second portion of the data, wherein the second portion of the data is streamed and wherein the second portion of the data includes essential information for reconstructing the content, and wherein the first portion of the data is not streamed with the second portion of the data; and playing the content by combining the first portion of the data with the second portion of the data to correctly reconstruct the content; wherein the playing the content comprises playing the content in a streaming manner such that the content is played as the second portion of the data is being received; wherein the second portion of the data comprises a portion of an intra-coded picture, wherein the portion of the intra-coded picture is less than an entirety of the intra-coded picture, and the entirety of the intra-coded picture is not included in the second portion of the data; and wherein, in response to the physical removable storage media being inserted into the device, the device automatically connects to a server, authenticates the user, and starts streaming the second portion of the data.