Patent ID: 8612354

Claim:
A method for controlling digital rights of a controlled content, the method comprising: tracking usage of the controlled content on a consuming device or on a second device, the second device delegating the digital rights to the consuming device, the controlled content being configured, through the digital rights associated with the controlled content, for usage of at most N times; inhibiting charging as an additional usage of the controlled content in at least one of the following cases where: a consumer momentarily consumes a second controlled content on a device, where the controlled content is consumed, chosen among the consuming device or the second device and then returns to the controlled content, the consumer effects a pause in a playback of the controlled content, the consumer performs a fast-forward of the controlled content, the consumer performs a rewind of the controlled content, and wherein the controlled content incorporates marker elements within at least certain parts of the controlled content, and the controlled content comprises controllable parts divided into periods that each contain at least one packet of control data, called control message, this control message -comprising a marker element, called mark, the method then comprises the steps, within the consuming device: progressively detecting each mark, within the controllable parts of the controlled content, as the controlled content is consumed, and tallying the number of these marks in order to be able to control the number of periods consumed from the controllable parts.