Patent ID: 8380849

Claim:
A system for managing a consumer's access to content to be rendered on a consumer content rendering device, the consumer content rendering device including a storage device, and wherein a digital rights management (DRM) server is arranged to provide a copy of at least one right to the consumer content rendering device for storage in the storage device, the system comprising: a DRM client on the consumer content rendering device that is arranged to attempt initially to retrieve a copy of at least one right to access particular content from a storage device of the consumer content rendering device, and, in the event that a copy of the at least one right is not found in the storage device, to attempt to retrieve a copy of the at least one right from said DRM server and to receive from said DRM server a result of a first rights management decision made at the DRM server in view of the at least one right to access particular content, said decision concerning whether or not to allow said access to said particular content; wherein the DRM client is arranged to make a second rights management decision concerning whether or not to allow said access to said particular content based on the first rights management decision received from the DRM server and on the at least one right to access particular content; and wherein the DRM client is further arranged to allow a copy of the at least one right to access particular content to reside in the storage device for a period of time before being made void by removing the copy of the at least one right from the storage device.