Patent ID: 8474054

Claim:
A method for repurposing a media originated from an original digital rights management system and passed through a bridge to be under the protection of a secondary digital rights management system, the method comprising: receiving a license upgrade request, by a server of the secondary digital rights management system, with license renewal data, wherein the license renewal data have been previously created and secured, through encryption and authentication by the original digital rights management system and have been previously added to the media by the bridge at the time the media was first issued to the secondary digital rights management system; sending, by the server of the secondary digital rights management system, a request for an authorization to upgrade the secondary digital rights management license to the original digital rights management system, the request including the license renewal data; receiving, by the server of the secondary digital rights management system, the authorization, wherein the authorization is provided from the original digital rights management system based on the license renewal data; and upgrading, by the server of the secondary digital rights management system, the secondary digital rights management license based on the authorization to provide upgraded rights to access the media from the secondary digital rights management system.