Method for the management of a configuration of a gateway by a user of the gateway

• US 20040148527A1
• Filed: 09/17/2003
• Published: 07/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Societe Francaise De Radiotelephone SA (Altice Europe NV)
• Original Assignee: Societe Francaise De Radiotelephone SA (Altice Europe NV)
• Inventors: Wary, Jean-Philippe
• Application Number:
  US10/664,257
• Publication Number:
  US 20040148527A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/202
• 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: H04L 12/2898 Subscriber equipments DSL modems H04M11/062; cable modems H04L12/2801
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0407 wherein the identity of one or more communicating identities is hidden cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for anonymous credentials or for identity based cryptographic systems H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

In order to offer the greatest possible flexibility in the configuration of privacy management, a recording in a database (112) is associated with each user. This database is addressed by a user identifier (IDU). It enables the definition of a isolating identifier nature (113.b) that has to be produced, by a service provider, for the user as a function of a content provider to which the user wishes to link up through the service provider. This database also enables the validation of the service requests sent by a content provider for a user X. This database enables an association between a pair formed by a user and a content provider and a list (113.c) of authorized services. A service request is validated only if the required service is present in a list determined from the pair consisting of the user X and the content provider.

Claims

1. A method for the management of a configuration of behavior of a gateway of a service provider according to the wishes of a user accessing a content provider through the gateway of the service provider, wherein:

the gateway has means to access a user-related recording that includes a description of the behavior that the user wishes the gateway to adopt, as a function of an identifier of the content provider,

the gateway accesses the user-related recording through a first user identifier automatically known on the network and provided by the service provider, when the user sends a request to the content provider,

the gateway comprises a default recording related to all the users who have not a user-related recording,

the gateway accesses the user-related recording through a second isolating user identifier, during the reception of a request, concerning the user, for service on the part of the content provider,

the gateway has means to link the first and second identifiers.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein a user-related recording associates the first user identifier with at least one content provider identifier, a content provider identifier being associated with a nature for the second isolating identifier to be given to the content provider when the service provider relays a request from the user to the content provider.

3. A method according to claim 2, wherein the nature of the second isolating identifier is chosen from among at least the group formed by temporary, permanent or personalized identifiers.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein a user-related recording associates the first user identifier with at least one content provider identifier, a content provider identifier being associated with at least one service that the service provider is then authorized to place at the disposal of the content provider.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein a user-related recording comprises a description of a default behavior for the gateway, the default behavior being adopted by the gateway when it is no longer possible to associate the user with a content provider.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the user-related recording is recorded in a user database interrogated by the gateway.

7. A method according to claim 6, wherein the user gets connected to the user database to update the recording concerning him.

8. A method according to claim 1, wherein the user-related recording is recorded in a terminal of the user, the gateway interrogating this terminal to obtain the user-related recording.

9. A method according to claim 1, wherein a default behavior of the gateway is locked by a lock that has to be opened explicitly by the user.