System for associating at least one physical medium with a base for storing digital data

• US 10,609,536 B2
• Filed: 12/08/2016
• Issued: 03/31/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Revive SAS
• Original Assignee: Revive SAS
• Inventors: Coussonnet, Laurent, Ranc, Emmanuel
• Primary Examiner(s): Jacobs, Lashonda T
• Application Number:
  US15/373,027
• Publication Number:
  US 20180070197A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,209 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/632 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/686 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title or artist information, time, location or usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10237 the reader and the record carrier being capable of selectively switching between reader and record carrier appearance, e.g. in near field communication [NFC] devices where the NFC device may function as an RFID reader or as an RFID tag
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3278 RFID or NFC payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/009 the reader being an RFID reader
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

The system for associating at least one physical medium (5) itself associated with at least one file containing at least audio data, with a base (1) for storing digital data comprises:

• • a management and control module (6) of the device,
  • a base (1) for storing digital data of at least one audio file, said file corresponding to a digital version of an audio file initially associated with at least one physical medium (5),
  • means (3) for reading said audio file in digital form connected to the database (1) by a cable or wireless link (F3),
  • a member (4) fixed to said physical medium (5) and storing information necessary for reading at least one audio file stored in digital form in said database (1) by said reading means (3).

Claims

1. A system for associating at least one physical medium (5), said physical medium (5) containing at least non-digital audio data, with a database (1) for storing digital data, the system comprising:

a management and control module (6) directly in encrypted electronic communication with the database (1) to exchange encrypted data and adapted to generate and manage cryptographic keys stored in a member (4), said member being an Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) type label and affixed to said physical medium (5), said physical medium being a vinyl disk, and the cryptographic keys further storing information transferred by the management and control module (6) necessary for accessing the digital data, including at least digital audio data stored in said database (1);

the database (1) storing digital data, including the digital audio data corresponding to the information stored in the RFID type label, said digital audio data being a digital version of the non-digital audio data contained within the vinyl disk (5);

means (3) for reading said RFID type label to access the digital data in the database (1), including at least the digital audio data corresponding to the non-digital audio data of the vinyl disk upon which the RFID type label is affixed, as limited by the cryptographic keys in the RFID type label and for reading the digital audio data upon accessing the database (1) by a cable or wireless link (F3), said means being a smartphone; and

wherein the encrypted data exchanged between the management and control module (6) and database (1) includes digital contents of the database, and roles and rights linked to access the database.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the means (3) are integral with the database (1).

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the means (3) are remote from the database (1), the database being hosted in a computing cloud (2).

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the module (6) is an HSM (Hardware Security Module).

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the module (6) is an SSM (Software Security Module).

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the cryptographic keys are stored on an electronic chip of the RFID type label (4).

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the RFID type label is a NFC (Near Field Communication) type label (4).