Patent ID: 8073780

Claim:
A method of accessing digital content comprising the steps of: providing a suite of selectable discrete pieces of digital content at a single host source; assigning a number of licensed units to each digital content in the suite of digital content; individual independent entities forming at least one discrete customer group, the at least one group formed of a plurality of individual customers; assigning an identification to each customer in the one customer group to identify each customer as part of one discrete customer group; selecting a group of individual digital content by each customer group from the suite of digital content for allowable access by the customers in the one customer group, respectively, from the source; acquiring a total number of group licensed units by the one customer group; and allowing access, according to a source license management control using the group licensed units, to at least one piece of digital content in the group of digital content selected by the one customer group, from the suite of digital content to at least one customer in the one customer group.