A METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR PERFORMING STATE CONTROL RELATING TO ACCESS TO CONTENT PROTECTED BY DRM SYSTEMS

摘要

This invention relates to a method and a device for performing state control relating to access to content protected by a Digital Right Management system, wherein the protected content is accessible from different DRM systems which have access to a common state object. The common state object identifies the state relating to previous access to said protected content. When accessing the common state object, the state relating to previous access to the content is identified, and based thereon the access to the protected content is determined.