Patent ID: 7426329

Claim:
A personal media player comprising: a digital media processing system comprising a video rendering subsystem, a music rendering subsystem, and a picture rendering subsystem; a user interface system coupled to the digital media processing system; a display unit system coupled to the digital media processing system; a power source system coupled to the digital media processing system for providing power to at least one component of the personal media player requiring power for operation; a Universal Plug and Play data port connection system coupled to the digital media processing system, the data port connection system capable of configuring itself to a network by acquiring a TCP/IP address from the network and using a hypertext transfer protocol to notify at least one other device connected to the network; and a portable housing unit encompassing the digital media processing system, the user interface system, the display unit system, the power source system, and the data port systems, wherein if the digital media processing system determines selected media content comprises protected content: the Universal Plug and Play data port connection system is adapted to issue a request to retrieve key IDs for the selected media content from a media server communicatively coupled to the personal media player via the network, retrieve rights for the selected media content from the license server, upon determining the retrieved rights indicate the selected media content may be copied retrieving keys from the personal media player and validating the personal media player with the license sever, and downloading a license from the license server.