Patent ID: 7805375

Claim:
A method for receiving, by a migration engine at a target platform, a digital license from a migration engine associated with a source platform, the method comprising: receiving, by the target platform, from the migration engine associated with the source platform, a migration image comprising a device identifier of the source platform, a digital license, and license data, said license data further comprising one or more source platform public key encrypted application decryption keys, and a key file comprising a migration service key encrypted private key of the source platform; sending, by the target platform, a request to the migration service, the request comprising a device identifier of the source platform, a device identifier of the target platform, and the key file; receiving, by the target platform, a response from the migration service, the response comprising the private key from the migration service key encrypted private key; and accessing, by the target platform, the one or more application decryption keys by decrypting the license data using the private key of the source platform.