Managed services environment portability

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8959660-B2
Application number	US-97213310-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 17, 2010
Priority date	Apr 23, 2010
Publication date	Feb 17, 2015
Grant date	Feb 17, 2015

Abstract

A device and method for forming a portable network environment outside a managed network environment for sharing content is provided. A portable network device enables authorized consumption of content outside a managed environment. The portable network device may have an internal rechargeable battery and support wireless protocols such as Wi-Fi. The portable network device may act as a Wi-Fi base station allowing access to authorized Wi-Fi clients via a mesh network.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a cylindrically shaped device, a security package through a managed network environment, the security package comprising encrypted content;
decrypting the encrypted content to produce decrypted content;
determining content rights for the decrypted content;
establishing a connection with a first media device outside the managed network
environment to form a portable network environment, the portable network environment compris…

Assignees

• Kotay Sree
• Werner Anthony
• Reynolds Steven
• Comcast Cable Comm Llc

Inventors

• Kotay Sree
• Werner Anthony
• Reynolds Steven

Classifications

• H04L63/10

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/0464 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic