Patent ID: 7136945

Claim:
A method of sharing protected content between peer devices, comprising: detecting that a first and second peer device are sufficiently proximal to share content protected under digital rights management; determining if it is desirable for the first and second peer devices to interact; communicating a content query between the first and second peer device; copying or moving protected content between the first peer device as a lender and the second peer device as a borrower in response to said content query via a first interface framework; reporting the copying or moving of protected content between the first and second peer devices to a digital rights management server by the first peer device, second peer device, or a combination of the first and second peer device, within a license received for said protected content; and automatically returning, or deactivating, said license for said protected content to the lender in response to meeting time or use conditions, or if a payment is not made to the digital rights management server.