Patent ID: 8544047

Claim:
An automatically reconfigurable multimedia system, comprising: a first device having a video display and an audio output; a second device configured for connection to said first device; a secure communications interface between said first device and said second device configured for communicating between said first device and said second device including receiving audio-video content and a configuration template from said second device to said first device; and said first device having a configuration rendering engine for generating a user interface on said video display based on information contained in said configuration template; wherein said secure communications interface comprises at least a first and a second communications connection which cooperate in authorizing multimedia content transfers across the secure communications interface, to prevent unlicensed materials from being output by the second device and/or being accepted by the first device; wherein authentication of the second device is performed over the combination of said first and second communications connections to ensure that the first and second communications connections are made on the same first device.