Patent ID: 8813254

Claim:
A system comprising: a conditional access system (CAS) switcher configured to receive a plurality of entitlement management message (EMM) requests from a plurality of mobile terminals operable to receive conditional access broadcast content from at least one subscription service, the received EMM requests requesting information related to broadcast content from the at least one subscription service and, for each of the EMM requests, the CAS switcher identifying a corresponding CAS associated with the mobile terminal that sent EMM request from a plurality of different types of CASs associated with the plurality of mobile terminals each of the plurality of CASs providing its own type of conditional access messages determined by a supplier of the CAS, and the CAS switcher sending the EMM requests to the identified corresponding CAS, and wherein the CAS switcher is further configured to receive conditional access messages from the plurality of different types of CASs responsive to the EMM requests and, for each of the conditional access messages, identifying a corresponding one of the plurality of mobile terminals associated with the EMM request on which the conditional access message is based and sending the conditional access messages to the identified corresponding one of the plurality if mobile terminals; a data storage device storing information identifying the plurality of different types of CASs, and wherein the CAS switcher compares information in each of the EMM request to the information stored in the data storage device to identify the corresponding CAS from the plurality of different types of CASs corresponding to the EMM request.