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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2000
William B. Boyle, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Alan P. Rice, Santa Ana, CA (US);
William B. Boyle, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Alan P. Rice, Santa Ana, CA (US);
Keen Personal Technologies, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Keen Personal Media, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention may be regarded as a digital video recorder (DVR) comprising a storage device for storing an encrypted video program, a unique ID for interlocking the encrypted video program with the digital video recorder, and a cryptography facility. The cryptography facility comprises an encoder, responsive to the unique ID, for encrypting a plaintext video program into the encrypted video program stored on the storage device, and a decoder, responsive to the unique ID, for decrypting the encrypted video program stored on the storage device into the plaintext video program during playback.