Method for managing purchase of broadcast digital contents and means for downloading same

• US 20040236957A1
• Filed: 01/26/2004
• Published: 11/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Thomson Licensing SA (Vantiva SA)
• Original Assignee: Thomson Licensing SA (Vantiva SA)
• Inventors: Laurent, Christophe, Durand, Alain
• Application Number:
  US10/484,901
• Publication Number:
  US 20040236957A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/193
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/06 Private payment circuits, e.g. involving electronic currency used among participants of a common payment scheme
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/123 Shopping for digital content
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/305 for record players

Abstract

The invention concerns a method for managing purchase of digital contents comprising steps which consist in: at a terminal level, a) receiving a digital content broadcast by broadcasting means; b) generating a content purchase order; c) transmitting the purchase order to means for processing the order; d) downloading the content from the processing means. The method further comprises, between steps c) and d) a content payment step at the end of which the terminal receives from the processing means a downloading ticket containing data used by the terminal for downloading the content at step d).

Claims

1. Method for managing purchase of digital contents comprising the steps consisting for a terminal in:

a) receiving a digital content broadcast by broadcasting means;

b) generating a purchase order for said content;

c) transmitting said purchase order to means for processing the order; and

d) downloading said content from said processing means;

the method also comprising, before the download step, a step of payment for said content after which the terminal receives from said processing means a download ticket, said download ticket containing information used by the terminal to download the content in step d),

wherein said download ticket comprises a seed to generate, with the aid of a pseudo-random generator using it as input variable, a pseudo-random key and in that the method also comprises the steps of;

generation by the terminal of said pseudo-random key based on the seed contained in the received download ticket; and

of

decipherment, with the aid of the pseudo-random key, of the digital content received in the downloading step d).

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein said download ticket comprises the URL universal address of download means forming part of said processing means.

3. Method according to claim 1, wherein said download ticket is transmitted to said terminal in a form encrypted with the aid of a symmetrical secret key.

4. Method according to claim 1, wherein the payment step is implemented by said terminal communicating with financial transaction management means to which is transmitted said purchase order and which deliver said download ticket received by the terminal.

5. Method according to claim 4, wherein said terminal also receives from said financial transaction management means transaction identifier.

6. Method according to claim 5, wherein the terminal transmits to said download means a proof of payment before step d).

7. Method according to claim 6 wherein the proof of payment contains said transaction identifier received from the financial transaction management means and an authentication message.

8. Method according to claim 1, wherein the download step d) comprises a step of dividing the digital content into a plurality of successive digital sub-contents and of encoding each of these digital sub-contents, followed by a step of downloading these digital sub-contents in succession to said terminal.

9. Method according to claim 8, wherein each encoded digital sub-content, with the exception of the last, comprises the corresponding digital sub-content and the value of a hash function applied to the subsequent encoded digital sub-content.

10. Method according to claim 9, wherein the download step comprises a step of generating a message comprising the number of digital sub-contents and the value of the hash function applied to the first encoded digital sub-content, this message being authenticated with the aid of a symmetrical secret key known only to the order processing means and said terminal.

11. Means for downloading digital contents via a data transmission network, comprising means for receiving a proof of payment of an order to purchase a broadcast digital content, wherein it also comprises means for transmitting this digital content to a terminal sending the proof of payment, said download means being suitable for transmitting the digital content in an encrypted form and also comprising

means for dividing the digital content into a plurality of successive digital sub-contents, means for encoding each of these digital sub-contents and means for successive transmission of these digital sub-contents.

12. Download means according to claim 11, wherein each encoded digital sub-content, with the exception of the last, comprises a corresponding digital sub-content and the value of a hash function applied to the subsequent digital sub-content.

13. Download means according to claim 12, wherein they comprise means for generating a message comprising the number of digital sub-contents and the value of the hash function applied to the first encoded digital sub-content.