Patent ID: 7644044

Claim:
A method of distributing content over a local network, the method comprising: obtaining an access criteria associated with a content protected by a first digital rights management (DRM) system; forwarding the access criteria to a sink device that utilizes a second DRM system; receiving from the sink device a first evaluation of the access criteria; determining, through a processor, based on the first evaluation whether the first DRM is compatible with the second DRM; directing the content to the sink device when it is determined that the first DRM is compatible with the second DRM; determining whether the access criteria can be transcripted from the first DRM to the second DRM; initiating a transcription of the access criteria when the access criteria can be transcripted producing transcripted access criteria; forwarding the transcripted access criteria to the sink device; receiving from the sink device a second evaluation of the transcripted access criteria; determining whether the sink device can utilize the content in response to the second evaluation; and directing the content to the sink device when determined that the sink device can utilize the content.