Patent ID: 8312158

Claim:
A method for transferring digital multimedia rights, the method comprising: receiving at a digital multimedia rights server, from a first source end user device associated with a source end user, a request for a transfer of a source set of digital multimedia rights associated with the source end user from a second source end user device associated with the source end user; determining a destination end user associated with a destination end user device to which the digital multimedia rights will be transferred; requesting permission from the destination end user to transfer the digital multimedia rights to the destination end user device; comparing the source set of digital multimedia rights to a destination set of digital multimedia rights associated with the destination end user at the destination end user device to determine a delta source set of digital multimedia rights comprising digital multimedia rights that have been requested for transfer from the second source device and that are also associated with the source end user at the second source end user device but are not associated with the destination end user at the destination end user device; and if the permission is received from the destination end user, canceling the delta source set of digital multimedia rights associated with the second source end user and transferring the delta source set of digital multimedia rights associated with the second source end user to the destination end user device.