RIGHTS OBJECT ACQUISITION METHOD OF MOBILE TERMINAL IN DIGITAL RIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20080172678A1
• Filed: 01/15/2008
• Published: 07/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Byung Rae, LEE, Kyung Keun
• Granted Patent: US 8,627,338 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/315
• 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: G06F 2221/2135 Metering
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2137 Time limited access, e.g. to a computer or data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources

Abstract

A rights objects acquisition method of a mobile terminal in a digital right management system is provided for acquiring multiple rights objects in a composite manner. An objects right acquisition method of a mobile terminal may include generating, in response to a group rights object (RO) acquisition command, a group rights object acquisition request with content identifiers assigned to individual contents corresponding to the rights objects indicated by the group rights object acquisition command, sending the group rights object acquisition request to a rights issuer; and receiving an group rights object acquisition response containing rights object identifiers assigned to the rights objects from the rights issuer. The present invention streamlines the RO acquisition process, especially when acquiring multiple ROs.

Claims

1. A rights object providing method, comprising:

generating, if multiple rights objects (ROs) corresponding to a plurality of individual contents are requested, a common rights object acquisition request containing a plurality of content identifiers (CIDs) assigned to said individual contents;

sending the common rights object acquisition request from a mobile terminal to a rights issuer; and

transmitting a common rights object acquisition response containing a plurality of rights object identifiers (roIds) assigned to the plurality of individual contents from the rights issuer to the mobile terminal.

2. The rights object providing method of claim 1, wherein the common rights object acquisition request comprises a common BatchRIURL header indicating an address of the rights issuer.

3. The rights object providing method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the common rights object acquisition request and the common rights object acquisition response is transmitted in an HTTP GET or HTTP POST message.

4. The rights object providing method of claim 1, wherein the common rights object acquisition request is transmitted to the rights issuer indicated by a common rights issuer address shared by the plurality of individual contents or a previously registered rights issuer address.

5. The rights object providing method of claim 4, wherein the common rights issuer address is extracted from headers of the individual contents.

6. The rights object providing method of claim 5, wherein the headers comprise a common header indicating the common rights issuer address.

7. The rights object providing method of claim 4, further comprising:

acquiring an address of the rights issuer having the multiple rights object issuance capability; and

sending the common rights object acquisition request to the rights object issuer having the multiple rights object issuance capability.

8. A rights object acquisition method of a mobile terminal, comprising:

transmitting a rights object acquisition protocol (ROAP) trigger request referencing multiple contents to a rights issuer;

receiving a ROAP trigger from the rights issuer in response to the ROAP trigger request;

transmitting a rights object (RO) request referencing at least one content of the multiple contents to the rights issuer after receiving the ROAP trigger;

receiving an RO response from the rights issuer in response to the RO request; and

acquiring at least one RO corresponding to the at least one content from the RO response.

9. The rights object acquisition method of claim 8, wherein the ROAP trigger request comprises a common headers field indicating a uniform resource locator (common BatchRIURL) of the rights issuer.

10. The rights object acquisition method of claim 8, wherein the ROAP trigger request comprises a plurality of content identifiers (CIDs) individually assigned to the multiple contents.

11. The rights object acquisition method of claim 8, wherein the ROAP trigger comprises a plurality of RO identifiers (roIds) assigned to the ROs corresponding to the multiple contents.

12. The rights object acquisition method of claim 11, wherein the RO request comprises at least one RO identifier of the RO corresponding to the at least one content.

13. The rights object acquisition method of claim 12, wherein RO response comprises at least one RO corresponding to the at least one content.

14. The rights object acquisition method of claim 8, wherein transmitting an RO request comprises:

extracting pricing information on the ROs corresponding to the multiple contents from the ROAP trigger;

generating, in response to a user approval command, the RO request referencing RO identifiers of the ROs corresponding to the multiple contents.

15. The rights object acquisition method of claim 8, wherein transmitting an RO request comprises:

extracting the pricing information on the ROs corresponding to the multiple contents from the ROAP trigger; and

generating, in response to a user selection command, the RO request referencing at least one RO identifier of the RO corresponding to the at least one content.

16. A rights object acquisition method of a mobile terminal in digital right management (DRM) system, comprising

transmitting, if multiple rights objects (RO) corresponding to multiple DRM contents are requested, rights object acquisition (ROAP) trigger request referencing a plurality of content identifiers (CIDs) assigned to the multiple DRM contents to a rights issuer (RI);

receiving a ROAP trigger referencing a plurality of RO identifiers (roIds) assigned to the ROs corresponding to the multiple DRM contents from the RI in response to the ROAP trigger request;

transmitting an RO request referencing at least one DRM content selected by a user to the RI after receiving the ROAP trigger;

receiving an RO response containing at least one RO corresponding to the at least one DRM content from the RI; and

acquiring the at least one RO for the at least one DRM content from the RO response.

17. The rights object acquisition method of claim 16, wherein the ROAP trigger request and ROAP trigger are transmitted in a hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) GET or HTTP POST message.

18. The rights object acquisition method of claim 16, wherein the RI is determined on the basis of a common RI address shared by the multiple DRM contents or a previously-registered RI address.

19. The rights object acquisition method of claim 18, wherein the common RI address is obtained from headers of the multiple DRM contents.

20. The rights object acquisition method of claim 19, wherein the headers comprises a common uniform resource locator (common BatchRIURL) header indicating the common RI address.

21. The rights object acquisition method of claim 16, wherein transmitting an ROAP trigger request comprises:

transmitting the ROAP trigger request to the RI with reference to a RI address attached to at least one of the multiple DRM contents;

receiving a redirection message including a new RI URL; and

transmitting the ROAP trigger request to a new RI with reference to the new RI URL.

22. The rights object acquisition method of claim 16, wherein transmitting the ROAP trigger request comprises:

requesting an address of the multiple RO-issuable RI to a specific RI;

receiving an address of the multiple RO-issuable RI from the specific RI; and

transmitting the ROAP trigger request to the multiple RO-issuable RI.

23. The rights object acquisition method of claim 16, further comprising configuring permissions and constraints of ROs corresponding to the multiple DRM contents after transmitting the ROAP trigger request.

24. The rights object acquisition method of claim 16, wherein the multiple DRM contents are referenced by information contained in a DRM content format (DCF) through a background operation.

25. The rights object acquisition method of claim 24, wherein the information comprises one of a silent header and a preview header.

26. The rights object acquisition method of claim 25, wherein each of the silent and preview headers comprises address information for acquiring at least one RO corresponding to at least one DRM content in a composite manner.

27. The rights object acquisition method of claim 25, wherein the information comprises the silent header and includes address information for acquiring at least one RO corresponding to at least one DRM content in a composite manner.

28. The rights object acquisition method of claim 25, wherein the information comprises the preview header and includes address information for acquiring at least one RO corresponding to at least one DRM content in a composite manner.

29. The rights object acquisition method of claim 20, wherein the ROAP trigger request comprises at least one parent constraint representing one or more child constraints restricting ROs on a DRM content.

30. A rights object acquisition method of a mobile terminal in a digital rights management (DRM) system, comprising:

generating, if multiple rights objects corresponding to at least one DRM content are requested, a rights object acquisition protocol (ROAP) trigger request;

checking a common header of a DRM content format (DCF) containing at Least one DRM content;

selecting a rights issuer (RI) for acquiring rights objects (ROs) corresponding to at least one DRM content with reference to the common header; and

transmitting the ROAP trigger request to the RI.

31. The rights object acquisition method of claim 30, wherein the common header comprises a common uniform resource locator (common BatchRIURL) header indicating an address of the RI, the common header being located in a specific field of the DCF.

32. The rights object acquisition method of claim 30, wherein the ROAP trigger request is transmitted in the form of a HTTP GET message or HTTP POST message.

33. The rights object acquisition method of claim 30, wherein the ROAP trigger request comprises at least one content identifier (CID) corresponding to the at least one DRM content.

34. The rights object acquisition method of claim 30, wherein the ROAP trigger request comprises at least one parent license indicator grouping one or more child license indicators assigned to ROs corresponding to a specific DRM content.

35. A rights object acquisition method for a digital rights management (DRM) system including a rights issuer (RI) issuing rights objects (ROs) to a mobile terminal, comprising:

receiving, at the RI, a rights object acquisition protocol (ROAP) trigger request referencing a plurality of content identifiers (CIDs) assigned to a plurality of contents from the mobile terminal;

generating ROAP trigger referencing a plurality of rights object identifiers (roIds) assigned to the ROs corresponding to the contents; and

transmitting the ROAP trigger to the mobile terminal.

36. The rights object acquisition method of claim 35, wherein the ROAP trigger is transmitted using a hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) GET message or HTTP POST message.

37. A rights object acquisition method of a mobile terminal, comprising:

generating, if multiple rights objects corresponding to a plurality of contents are requested, a rights object acquisition protocol (ROAP) trigger request referencing a plurality of contents identifiers (CIDs) assigned to a plurality of contents;

transmitting the ROAP trigger request to a rights issuer (RI) located by common uniform resource locator (common BatchRIURL) headers of the contents;

receiving a ROAP trigger referencing a plurality of rights object identifiers (roIds) assigned to rights objects corresponding to the contents from the RI; and

acquiring at least one RO corresponding to at least one content with reference to the roIDs in a composite manner.

38. The rights object acquisition method of claim 37, wherein the common BatchRIURL header comprises an address of the RI having a multiple rights object issuance capability, the common BatchRIURL header being located in a specific field of the DCF.

39. The rights object acquisition method of claim 37, wherein the ROAP trigger request and ROAP trigger is transmitted using a hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) GET message or HTTP POST message.

40. The rights object acquisition method of claim 37, wherein the ROAP trigger request comprises at least one parent license indicator grouping one or more child license indicators assigned to ROs corresponding to a specific DRM content.

41. The rights object acquisition method of claim 40, wherein the ROAP trigger request comprises at least one parent constraint representing at least two child constraints ROs on a DRM content.

42. The rights object acquisition method of claim 37, wherein acquiring at least one RO comprises:

transmitting an RO request referencing at least one roID to the RI;

receiving an RO response for issuing the ROs indicated by the at least one roId from the RI; and

extracting the RO from the RO response.

43. The rights object acquisition method of claim 42, wherein the at least one roID is selected from the roIds contained in the ROAP response.

44. The rights object acquisition method of claim 42, wherein the RO response contains at least one RO corresponding to the at least one content.

45. A rights object providing method, comprising:

generating, if multiple rights objects (ROs) corresponding to a plurality of individual contents are requested, a common rights object acquisition request containing a plurality of content identifiers (CIDs) assigned to said individual contents;

receiving the common rights object acquisition request from a mobile terminal by a rights issuer; and

transmitting a common rights object acquisition response containing a plurality of rights object identifiers (roIds) assigned to the plurality of individual contents from the rights issuer to the mobile terminal.

46. The rights object providing method of claim 45, wherein the common rights object acquisition request comprises a common BatchRIURL header indicating an address of the rights issuer.

47. The rights object providing method of claim 45, wherein at least one of the common rights object acquisition request and the common rights object acquisition response is transmitted in an HTTP GET or HTTP POST message.

48. The rights object providing method of claim 45, wherein the common rights object acquisition request is transmitted to the rights issuer indicated by a common rights issuer address shared by the plurality of individual contents or a previously registered rights issuer address.

49. The rights object providing method of claim 48, wherein the common rights issuer address is extracted from headers of the individual contents.

50. The rights object providing method of claim 49, wherein the headers comprise a common header indicating the common rights issuer address.

51. The rights object providing method of claim 48, further comprising:

acquiring an address of the rights issuer having the multiple rights object issuance capability; and

sending the common rights object acquisition request to the rights object issuer having the multiple rights object issuance capability.