METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT RIGHTS OBJECTS

摘要

Provided are a method and apparatus for managing digital rights management (DRM) rights objects, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for downloading and managing DRM rights objects by accessing a device, which does not support DRM technology, using a universal plug and play (UPnP) network. The method includes requesting a media server, which has downloaded specified content, to provide meta information of the content; determining whether to download a rights object for the content based on the meta information of the content; requesting an approval for the download of the rights object if it is determined to download the rights object; and providing the downloaded rights object to the media server.