Patent ID: 7606559

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a processor configured to provide a digital rights service group for a group of entities including at least one of a source or a destination, the digital rights service group defining a level of access of the source or destination to protected content, wherein the processor being configured to provide the digital rights service group includes being configured to provide the digital rights service group defining access to unspecified protected content available from a specified content origin, and provide another digital rights service group defining access to a specified piece of content available from an unspecified content origin, the unspecified content origin being the same or a different content origin, wherein the processor is configured to associate the source or destination with a digital rights service group identifier that identifies the digital rights service group, access rights of the source or destination to the protected content being verifiable based upon the digital rights service group identifier to thereby permit a transfer of the protected content from the source to the destination if the access rights of at least one of the source or destination are verified, wherein the processor being configured to associate the source or destination includes being configured to associate the source or destination, included within the digital rights service group defining access to the specified piece of content, with a supplemental group identifier, the access rights being verifiable based upon at least one of the digital rights service group identifier or the supplemental group identifier.