Allowing conversion of one digital rights management scheme to another

摘要

The present invention relates to a method, a computer program product, a computer program element and a computer data signal (35) providing information about supported digital rights management features related to an electronic communication device and such an electronic communication device (10). It also relates to a method, a content providing device (16) a computer program product and a computer program element for generating rights objects for provision to an electronic communication device and a system for managing digital rights. The electronic communication device (10) provides at least a reference to listings or listings (36, 38) of digital rights management features supported by each of at least two different digital rights management schemes related to the communication device and transmits at least the reference to listings or the listings to a content providing device (16). Based on these listings the content providing device (16) generates a rights object (40) according to one of the schemes only including features common to all the schemes.