Patent ID: 7757299

Claim:
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: receiving conditional access protected content; receiving conditional access content protection information associated with the conditional access protected content; interpreting the conditional access content protection information and determining usage rights of a destination device as defined by a content provider; based on the interpreted content protection information, producing a content license used for enforcing digital rights within the destination device by using 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, and wherein encrypting the consumable content using the one or more digital rights management keys converts the conditional access protected content to digital rights management (DRM) protected content.