Patent ID: 8488787

Claim:
A method for managing secure access to a secure digital content enciphered with a key in a portable communicating object associated with a terminal, the terminal comprising an agent for processing the secure digital content that is transmitted by a first server to the terminal through a communications network, said method comprising the following steps executed, in the portable communicating object: accessing a certificate relating to the agent and a type of digital right used by the agent, storing the key and an access right relating to the secure digital content, transmitted from a second server, comparing the type of digital right used by the agent and the received access right relating to the secure digital content, adapting the key and the received access right and modifying the secure digital content, according to the type of digital right used by the agent, if the type of digital right used by the agent and the received access right relating to the secure digital content are different, and producing a secure access file according to the adapted access right, the adapted key and the accessed certificate, the secure access file being accessible to the terminal so that the agent processes the secure digital content modified according to the secure access file, if the type of digital right used by the agent and the received access right relating to the secure digital content are different.