Configurable Access Kernel
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Abstract
A highly configurable kernel supports a wide variety of content protection systems. The kernel may reside in a host that interacts with a secure processor maintaining content protection clients. After establishing communication with the secure processor, the host receives messages from content protection clients requesting rules for message handling operations to support client operations. This flexible configuration allows for dynamic reconfiguration of host and secure processor operation.
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28 Claims
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1-19. -19. (canceled)
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20. A method comprising:
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sending from a host a request to a secure processor requesting information about a plurality of content protection clients maintained by the secure processor; receiving, in response to the sent request, information identifying each of the plurality of content protection clients maintained by the secure processor; sending a message to one or more of the identified content protection clients; receiving message handling instructions from at least one of the identified content protection clients; and configuring message handling operations for the at least one identified content protection client based on the received message handling instructions, the message handling operations including parameters for selectively filtering received messages. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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