Method of generating usage rule information for broadcast channel

• US 20060179001A1
• Filed: 02/07/2006
• Published: 08/10/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Bong-seon, Yoon, Young-sun, Han, Sung-hyu, Lee, Sun-nam, Lee, Jae-heung, Kim, Myung-sun
• Application Number:
  US11/348,236
• Publication Number:
  US 20060179001A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8355 involving usage data, e.g. number of copies or viewings allowed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/1675 Providing digital key or authorisation information for generation or regeneration of the scrambling sequence pseudo-random number generators in general G06F7/58

Abstract

A method of generating usage rule information for a broadcast channel. The method includes receiving content and a broadcast flag via the broadcast channel, creating content usage rule information to allow all operations relating to use of the content when the broadcast flag is off, and creating usage rule information to forbid copying of the content when the broadcast flag is on.

Claims

1. A method of generating usage rule information for a broadcast channel, the method comprising:

receiving content and a broadcast flag via the broadcast channel;

creating content usage rule information to allow all operations relating to use of the content if the broadcast flag is off; and

creating usage rule information to forbid copying of the content if the broadcast flag is on.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising if a user inputs a command indicating that the content is to be copied to a destination device, performing proximity checking on the destination device and determining whether copying of the content is to be allowed.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the performing proximity checking on the destination device and determining whether copying of the content is to be allowed comprises:

measuring a time-to-live time between the destination device and a home server by transmitting a test packet from the home server to the destination device; and

comparing the time-to-live time with a predetermined threshold to determine whether the destination device passes proximity checking.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the performing proximity checking on the destination device and determining whether copying of the content is to be allowed comprises:

measuring a round trip time between the destination device and a home server by transmitting a test packet from the home server to the destination device; and

comparing the round trip time with a predetermined threshold to determine whether the destination device passes proximity checking.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the predetermined threshold is a round trip time of 7 ms.

6. A method of generating usage rule information for a broadcast channel, the method comprising:

receiving content and copy control information via the broadcast channel;

creating usage rule information to allow only real-time reproduction and storing of the content if the copy control information indicates that the content is ‘

copy once’

;

changing the usage rule information to allow at least one of a stored play operation, a moving operation, a migrating operation, an exporting operation, and an editing operation for editing the content to be performed after one of real-time reproduction and storing of the content is completed.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising creating usage rule information allowing only the operations of stored play, moving, migrating, exporting, and editing if the copy control information indicates that the content is ‘

copy no more’

.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising creating usage rule information allowing all operations relating to copying of the content if the copy control information describes that the content is ‘

copy free’

.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

creating usage rule information allowing only the real-time reproduction of the content if the copy control information indicates that the content is ‘

copy never’

; and

if the user inputs a command indicating that the content is to be exported, determining whether exporting of the content is to be performed depending on whether an object of exporting is a protocol for real-time reproduction.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising if it is determined that the object of exporting is the protocol for real-time production, performing exporting of the content, and

wherein the object of exporting is content protected by digital transmission content protection.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising if it is determined that the object of exporting is not the protocol for real-time production, rejecting exporting of the content, and

wherein the object of exporting is a protocol for transmission of the content to a storage medium.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein in if it is determined that the object of exporting is not the protocol. for real-time production, the protocol for transmission of the content to the storage medium is a content protection protocol for removable media.

13. A computer recording medium having embodied thereon a program for executing a method of generating usage rule information for a broadcast channel in a computer, wherein the method comprises:

receiving content and a broadcast flag via the broadcast channel;

creating content usage rule information to allow all operations relating to use of the content if the broadcast flag is off; and

creating usage rule information to forbid copying of the content if the broadcast flag is on.

14. A computer recording medium having embodied thereon a program for executing a method of generating usage rule information for a broadcast channel in a computer, wherein the method comprises:

receiving content and copy control information via the broadcast channel;

creating usage rule information to allow only real-time reproduction and storing of the content if the copy control information indicates that the content is ‘

copy once’

;

changing the usage rule information to allow at least one of a stored play operation, a moving operation, a migrating operation, an exporting operation, and an editing operation for editing the content to be performed after one of real-time reproduction and storing of the content is completed.

15. A method of receiving broadcast content, the method comprising:

receiving usage control information of the broadcast content;

mapping the usage control information of the broadcast content to usage rule information;

transforming the usage control information into the mapped usage rule information; and

generating a license which includes the usage rule information.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the usage rule information is included in content control information or information regarding a scope of authority, according to the usage control information.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the license further comprises content binding information based on the usage control information.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the content binding information is related to binding to a user or a device.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the usage control information is a broadcast flag.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the usage control information is a copy control information.

21. The method of claim 15, further comprising storing the broadcast content and the license.

22. An apparatus which receives broadcast content, the apparatus comprising:

a broadcast receiver receiving a broadcast signal which contains usage control information of the broadcast content;

a license generator transforming the usage control information into usage rule information, and generating a license which contains content binding information corresponding to the usage control information; and

a storage unit storing the broadcast content and the license.

23. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the content binding information is related to binding to a user or a device.

24. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the usage control information is a copy control information.