Patent ID: 8589546

Claim:
A method of removing a client as a member of a hub network, comprising: receiving, at a server, a removal request of the client as a member of the hub network; receiving a revocation notification that the client is no longer authorized to be a member of the hub network, wherein the revocation notification is received when it is determined that the client has circumvented or broken a rule of the hub network for compliant member devices; disabling licenses for sub-copy versions of bound instances bound to the hub network of the server, wherein the sub-copy versions are stored on the client and are copies of source versions of locked content data stored on the server, and wherein the bound instance is one logical instance represented by the locked content data and corresponding licenses stored on the server of the hub network; sending a disable request to the client indicating the sub-copy versions stored on the client to be disabled such that the client disables the corresponding licenses; and removing said client as a member in said hub network so that said client is no longer a member of said hub network.