Patent ID: 7035827

Claim:
A content receiving method, comprising: receiving content by one or more electronic processing devices, the content distributed in accordance with one of a plurality of rights management and protection methods; receiving rights indicia relating to the content by the one or more electronic processing devices; identifying one of the plurality of rights management and protection methods by the one or more electronic processing devices through which the received content is distributed; determining whether the one or more electronic processing devices is operable to perform rights processing in accordance with the identified rights management and protection method; when the one or more electronic processing devices is operable to perform the identified rights management and processing method, using the received rights indicia by the one or more electronic processing devices to perform rights processing of the received content in accordance with the identified rights management and protection method to permit or deny access to the received content; and when the one or more electronic processing devices is not operable to perform the identified rights management and processing method, a) using a processing ability of the one or more electronic processing devices to automatically alter the one or more electronic processing devices to be operable to perform the identified rights management and processing method and b) using the received rights indicia by the altered one or more electronic processing devices to perform rights processing of the received content in accordance with the identified rights management and protection method to permit or deny access to the received content.