Patent ID: 8640261

Claim:
A method for obtaining and controlling use of content by a terminal, said terminal comprising a client agent for controlling the use of the content, wherein the method comprises: transmitting from the terminal to the server a parental control management module identifier, in response to a request transmitted to a server, receiving by the terminal said content in encrypted form together with an associated digital rights management license, said license containing conditions for the use of the content, including: a condition making the use of the content conditional upon prior performance of a parental control operation; and the identifier of said parental control management module transmitted, in case of a command to read said content, checking the conditions of use of the content present in the license by the controlling client agent, comprising: determining that the use of the content is conditional upon an obligation to perform the parental control operation on the content, extracting the identifier of the parental control management module from said received license, and using the identifier of the parental control management module extracted from the license, transmitting a request for authorization to use the content to the parental control management module, performing, by the parental control management module, the parental control operation on said content and transmitting a result of the parental control operation to the controlling agent in order to authorize or deny reading of the content depending on whether the result is positive or negative.