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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2010
Quintin S. Burns, Fort Mill, SC (US);
Quintin S. Burns, Fort Mill, SC (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Content license storage is provided by holding, in a temporary license store on the content consumption device, a plurality of content licenses for a plurality of content streams, wherein each content license of the plurality of content licenses includes a removal date. The method further includes for each content license of the plurality of content licenses corresponding to a content stream of the plurality of content streams which is designated for archived playback, copying the content license into an embedded license store within the content stream to form an archived content stream. The method further includes removing one or more of the plurality of content licenses held at the temporary license store if the removal date included in the content license has been reached, while leaving each content license stored within an archived content stream even if the removal date has been reached.