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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2007
Patrik Schnell, Issaquah, WA (US);
James M. Alkove, Redmond, WA (US);
Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, Redmond, WA (US);
Patrik Schnell, Issaquah, WA (US);
James M. Alkove, Redmond, WA (US);
Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
This document describes tools capable of securely distributing entertainment content among and using distributed hardware. These tools may do so robustly by rebinding entertainment content between distributed hardware units. The tools, for example, may distribute content protection in hardware between a policy unit, a transcryption unit, a graphics processing unit, and a playback unit. By so doing the tools enable, among other things, users to select from many graphics cards rather than rely on the graphics capabilities of an integrated (e.g., SOC) hardware solution.