Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Future Wei Technologies, Inc.

Bernhard Kotzenberg

Arnold Neil Blinn

Kenneth Alan Lobb

Donald Marcus Gillett

John Darren Elliott

Kenneth S Reneris

Thaddeus C Pritchett

David J Cheng

One or more persistent customized social media environments are created allowing users to share content or an activity. The content or activity may comprise a shared media experience or shared participatory experience. Each user accessing the environment utilizes a device alone or in conjunction with other devices to complete a sharing experience. A persistent customized social media environment definition establishes a user environment which provides social networking services as well as content sharing and allows users who are connected to the persistent customized social media environment definition to experience instant messages, while those users who connect to the persistent customized social media environment at a later time will receive messages once they enter the environment.

Persistent customized social media environment

A tuning device uses a counter mode encryption cipher to encrypt counters associated with media content in order to protect the media content when it is sent to requesting device or controller. The encrypted counters are decrypted in order to consume the media content. The controller may send particular direction to the tuning device as to how the media content, encrypted counters, and other associated data are sent to the controller.

Encrypting content in a tuner device and analyzing content protection policy

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Bellevue, WA, United States of America

Bernhard Kotzenberg