Conditional-access terminal device and method

• US 20050209970A1
• Filed: 03/15/2005
• Published: 09/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Solutions Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Solutions Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Shiba, Masue, Yura, Koji
• Application Number:
  US11/079,204
• Publication Number:
  US 20050209970A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/52
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/575 Secure boot
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4623 Processing of entitlement messages, e.g. ECM [Entitlement Control Message] or EMM [Entitlement Management Message] arrangements for conditional access to broadcast information or to broadcast-related services H04H60/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/165 Centralised control of user terminal subsequent to an upstream request signal H04N7/17345; Registering at central by two-way working H04N7/17309

Abstract

According to a first aspect of the present invention, a conditional-access program can be updated without replacing a conditional-access large scale integrated circuit (LSI) or a conditional-access terminal device main-body. A conditional-access terminal device reads and decrypts an encrypted conditional-access program from a memory storage device at start-up, and executes conditional-access processing in conformity to the obtained conditional-access program. Consequently, by replacing the memory storage device, the conditional-access program can be updated.

Claims

1. A conditional-access terminal device for executing conditional-access processing for a secure memory storage device in which an encrypted conditional-access program and an encryption program key for decrypting the conditional-access program by a conditional-access program obtained from the secure memory storage device, the device comprising:

a conditional-access large scale integrated circuit (LSI) having a memory from and to which the conditional-access program is read and written and a processor which executes conditional-access processing in conformity to the conditional-access program in the memory;

a device configured to read the encrypted conditional-access program and the encryption program key from the secure memory storage device at start up;

a device configured to decrypt the encrypted conditional-access program in conformity to the encryption program key and to obtain the conditional-access program; and

a device configured to write the obtained conditional-access program in memory of the conditional-access LSI.

2. The conditional-access terminal device according to claim 1,

wherein the conditional-access program includes first version control information which includes version or date;

and

the secure memory storage device stores second version control information which has the same content as the first version control information, the terminal device further comprising;

a device configured to read the second version control information from the secure memory storage device at start-up;

a device configured to collate the read second version control information with the first version control information contained in the decrypted conditional-access program; and

a device configured to prevent the execution of conditional-access processing when both pieces of information do not coincide as a result of the collation.

6. The conditional-access terminal device according to claim 1,

wherein the secure memory storage device stores its own medium identification information, terminal identification information which is the encrypted terminal identification information calculated from this medium identification information, and an encryption identification information key to decrypt this encrypted terminal identification information, the terminal device further comprising:

a device configured to read the encryption identification information key and the encrypted medium identification information from the secure memory storage device;

a device configured to decrypt the encrypted medium identification information in conformity to the encryption contract information key and to obtain the terminal identification information;

a device configured to write the obtained terminal identification information in memory of the conditional-access LSI; and

a device configured to execute the conditional-access processing in conformity to the terminal identification information in the memory.

7. The conditional-access terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a device configured to read the copy control information recorded in the specified channel of broadcasting waves with respect to the broadcasting waves containing scrambled broadcasting content and copy control information;

a device configured to encrypt the broadcasting content in conformity to the accumulation-reproduction encryption content key, which is scrambled by the conditional-access processing in accordance with this copy control information;

a device configured to update the copy control information;

a device configured to transfer the encrypted broadcasting content, the encryption content key, and the updated copy control information to the secure memory storage device;

a device configured to read the encrypted broadcasting content, the accumulation-reproduction encryption content key, and updated copy control information from the secure memory storage device;

a device configured to decrypt the encrypted broadcasting content in conformity to the accumulation-reproduction encryption content key;

a device configured to reproduce the decrypted broadcasting content; and

a device configured to copy-control the broadcasting content to be reproduced in conformity to the updated copy control information.

8. The conditional-access terminal device according to claim 1,

wherein the conditional-access LSI includes a decoder that decodes the transport stream packet of the broadcasting content subject to the conditional-access processing.

3. A conditional-access terminal device for executing conditional-access processing for a secure memory storage device in which encrypted “

contract-related information” and

an encryption contract information key for decrypting the “

contract-related information”

by “

contract-related information”

obtained from the secure memory storage device, the terminal device further comprising;

a conditional-access large scale integrated circuit (LSI) having a memory from and to which the “

contract-related information”

is read and written and a processor which executes conditional-access processing in conformity to the “

contract-related information”

in the memory;

a device configured to read the encrypted “

contract-related information” and

the encryption contract information key from the secure memory storage device at start-up;

a device configured to decrypt the encrypted “

contract-related information”

in conformity to the encryption contract information key and to obtain the “

contract-related information”

;

a device configured to write the obtained “

contract-related information”

in memory of the conditional-access LSI;

a device configured to send the new “

contract-related information”

from the relevant conditional-access LSI when the new “

contract-related information”

is received while conditional-access processing by the conditional-access LSI is being carried out; and

a device configured to encrypt the sent-out “

contract-related information”

by the encryption contract information key and transfer the obtained encrypted “

contract-related information”

to the secure memory storage device to update and store.

4. The conditional-access terminal device according to claim 3,

wherein the contract-related information includes first version control information which includes version or date;

and

the secure memory storage device stores second version control information which has the same content as the first version control information, the terminal device further comprising;

a device configured to read the second version control information from the secure memory storage device at start-up;

a device configured to collate the read second version control information with the first version control information contained in the decrypted “

contract-related information”

; and

a device configured to prevent the execution of conditional-access processing when both pieces of information do not coincide as a result of the collation.

5. The conditional-access terminal device according to claim 4,

wherein the secure memory storage device stores its own medium identification information, and

the “

contract-related information”

includes terminal identification information calculated from the medium identification information, and the conditional-access LSI comprises;

a device configured to execute the conditional-access processing in conformity to the terminal identification information contained in the “

contract-related information”

in the memory.

9. A conditional-access method for use in a conditional-access terminal device for executing conditional-access processing by a conditional access program obtained from a secure memory storage device with the secure memory storage device in which an encrypted conditional-access program and an encryption program key for decrypting the conditional-access program,

wherein the conditional-access terminal device comprises:

a conditional-access large scale integrated circuit (LSI) having memory from and to which the conditional-access program is read and written and a processor to execute conditional-access processing in compliance with a conditional-access program in the memory, the method comprising;

reading the encrypted conditional-access program and the encryption program key from the secure memory storage device at start-up, by the conditional-access terminal device;

decrypting the encrypted conditional-access program in compliance with the read encryption program key, by the conditional-access terminal device; and

writing the decoded conditional-access program in memory of the conditional-access LSI, by the conditional-access terminal device.

10. A conditional-access method for use in a conditional-access terminal device for executing conditional-access processing by “

contract-related information”

obtained from a secure memory storage device having stored therein encrypted “

contract-related information” and

an encryption contract information key for decrypting the “

contract-related information”

,

wherein the conditional-access terminal device comprises;

a conditional-access large scale integrated circuit (LSI) having a memory from and to which the “

contract-related information”

is read and written and a processor to execute conditional-access processing in compliance with a “

contract-related information”

in the memory, the method comprising;

reading the encrypted “

contract-related information” and

the encryption contract information key from the secure memory storage device at start-up, by the conditional-access terminal device;

decrypting the encrypted “

contract-related information”

in compliance with the read encryption contract information key, by the conditional-access terminal device;

writing the decoded “

contract-related information”

in the memory of the conditional-access LSI, by the conditional-access terminal device;

sending the new “

contract-related information”

to the relevant conditional-access LSI when the conditional-access terminal device receives the new “

contract-related information”

while conditional-access processing by the conditional-access LSI is being implemented, by the conditional-access terminal device; and

encrypting the sent-out “

contract-related information”

by the encryption contract information key and transferring the obtained encrypted “

contract-related information”

to the secure memory storage device for updating and storing, by the conditional-access terminal device.