Patent ID: 8239962

Claim:
A method of processing DRM (Digital Rights Management) rights in a Digital Rights Management (DRM) system, wherein DRM rights for controlling access to content have been created, the method comprising: receiving the DRM rights in the DRM system, and allowing a user of the DRM system to directly input user attributed rights via a user interface in the form of further restrictions on the received DRM rights to regulate the DRM system without external authorization, the further restrictions implemented via a Rights Program Template (RPT) that imposes rights management of the content when the content is exported or communicated, allowing the user of the DRM system to adjust template data associated with the Rights Program Template via the user interface, wherein the Rights Program Template comprises said template data and fixed data, whereby only the template data is adjustable by the user, wherein the DRM system receiving the DRM rights is an AD-DRM system which derives Authorized Domain (AD) specific rights from the received DRM rights wherein the received DRM rights and the user attributed rights are coupled rights preventing the removal of only one of the received DRM rights or the user attributed rights.