Patent ID: 7930250

Claim:
A method for leaving a specific domain after returning a domain Rights Object (RO) taken by a specific device in a Digital Rights Management (DRM) comprising: sending, by a first device, to a second device, a first message, the first message requesting for leaving from a specific domain, wherein the domain is managed by the second device and the second device is a domain authority/domain enforcement agent (DA/DEA); receiving, by the first device, from the second device, information related to a device or devices to which a domain RO is to be moved, wherein the information includes a list of available devices or a target device to which the domain RO is to be moved, and the information is received by the first device after the first device requests for leaving from the specific domain; moving, by the first device, the domain RO to the target device based upon the received information in order for the first device to leave from the specific domain; receiving, by the first device, from the target device, a response message in response to the request message, the response message informing the first device that the target device has successfully received the domain RO; sending, by the first device, to the second device, a notification message for notifying that the first device has moved the domain RO to the target device; and receiving, by the first device, from the second device, a second message indicating the leaving from the specific domain after removing, by the second device, the first device from the specific domain.