Patent ID: 7305366

Claim:
A computing device having instantiated thereon elements comprising: a digital rendering license for rendering corresponding digital content on the computing device, the rendering license including an identifying indicia identifying a source of the corresponding content; a digital rights management (DRM) system for ensuring that the digital content on the computing device is rendered only in accordance with the corresponding digital license on the computing device and a digital structure comprising a modification string for modifying the rendering license on the computing device, the modification string comprising: the identifying indicia of the rendering license, the rendering license indexing to such modification string based on such identifying indicia; a sequence number, the DRM system employing such sequence number to determine whether the modification string is more current than another modification string; and a modification script including a set of instructions, the DRM system executing the instructions of the modification script with respect to the rendering license to modify such rendering license by modifying state information maintained by the DRM system with respect to the rendering license.