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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2004
Ronald P. Cocchi, Seal Beach, CA (US);
Christopher P. Curren, Brentwood, CA (US);
Kevin T. Collier, Gardena, CA (US);
Ronald P. Cocchi, Seal Beach, CA (US);
Christopher P. Curren, Brentwood, CA (US);
Kevin T. Collier, Gardena, CA (US);
The DIRECTV Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method of controlling access to a media program via a receiver communicably coupleable to a conditional access module is described. The apparatus comprises a first processor, a second processor, and an interface module, communicatively coupled to the first processor and the second processor, the interface module for processing all communications with the conditional access module and externally manifesting a single virtual processor to the receiver.