Patent ID: 8839005

Claim:
A digital rights management (DRM) storage device, comprising: a non-volatile memory configured to store content and license data, the license data including content use data and content transfer data, the content transfer data disallowing transfer of the content to a second DRM device, via a host digital appliance, without prior consent by a third party licensing authority, and a memory controller, wherein the memory controller is configured to: access the content and the content use data stored in the memory in order to provide rendition of the content to the host digital appliance in accordance with the content use data; in response to a request via the host digital appliance for a license from the third party licensing authority, the request indicative of commanding that the DRM storage device send the content from the DRM storage device to the second DRM device, receive the license from the third party licensing authority in a license communication; in response to receiving the license, determine, based on the content transfer data and the received license, whether to transfer the content to the second DRM device; in response to determining to transfer the content, transmit the content through an interface for transfer to the second DRM device via the host digital appliance; receive a modify license command in a license modification communication from the third party licensing authority, wherein the memory controller is configured to receive the license communication and the license modification communication as two separate communications; in response to receiving the modify license command from the third party licensing authority, modify the license data based on the modify license command received via the host digital appliance in order to thereafter prevent the DRM storage device from any further use of the content; and in response to determining to not transfer the content, prohibit transmission of the content via the host digital appliance.