Patent ID: 7546641

Claim:
In an entertainment media environment, a method of producing a content license used to consume content in accordance with usage rights defined by a content protection scheme, although the content originated from a different content protection scheme, the method comprising the acts of: receiving conditional access protected content broadcast to a plurality of receivers and encrypted by a plurality of intermittent updated keys; receiving conditional access content protection information that includes information used to determine, manage and enforce usage rights associated with the conditional access protected content; interpreting the conditional access content protection information for determining the usage rights defined by a content provider, which specify how and under what conditions content may be consumed at a destination device; decrypting the conditional access protected content using the plurality of intermittent updated keys to produce consumable content; based on the interpreted conditional access content protection information, producing a content license used for enforcing digital rights within the destination device by providing one or more digital rights management keys in accordance with the usage rights; and encrypting the consumable content using the one or more digital rights management keys, wherein the one or more digital rights management keys are not included within the consumable content.