Information Subscribing System for Portable Terminal Device Having Autonomous Network Access

• US 20080205647A1
• Filed: 07/31/2006
• Published: 08/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Shanghai Yee Networks Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Shanghai Yee Networks Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Zhang, Wenqi, Cheng, Weimin, Fan, Di
• Application Number:
  US12/067,906
• Publication Number:
  US 20080205647A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 380/258
• 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]

Abstract

An information subscribing system for portable terminal device 20 having autonomous network access, wherein the portable terminal device 20 communicates to the transmission authentication control protocols platform 2 in conjunction with the information distribution platform 1 over a network connection, the transmission authentication control protocols platform 2 permits the portable terminal device 20 to perform subscribing and searching for the information stored on the information distribution platform 1. Based on the information distribution platform 1, high effective promulgation of multimedia information is therefore obtained by interacting with portable terminal device 20 having autonomous network access in the manner of distributed transmission over electric network and the unique identification and authentication, the terminal user can acquire multimedia content effectively and conveniently, the present invention protects the copyright of multimedia information data, prevents the phenomena of illegal copy, and realizes copyright protection.

Claims

1-6. -6. (canceled)

7. An information subscribing system, comprising:

a portable terminal device having autonomous network access;

a transmission authentication control protocols platform, for identifying, and authenticating portable terminal device over a network connection;

is in conjunction with an information distribution platform, for storing and delivering information;

wherein the information subscribing system is configurable for portable terminal device to communicate with transmission authentication control protocols platform in conjunction with the information distribution platform for accessing, subscribing and receiving information over a network connection.

8. The information subscribing system of claim 7, wherein the portable terminal device, comprising;

a unique device identifier; and

a hardware-based authentication chip, for authorized downloading, including a cryptographic key generator, a rights management controller, and a communication protocols module.

9. The information subscribing system of claim 7, wherein said autonomous network access is directly connect to a network and establish a network connection link host server without using a computer as an intermediary.

10. The information subscribing system of claim 7, wherein network including wired and wireless network.

11. The information subscribing system of claim 7, wherein information distribution platform, comprising;

information and file management system;

user information management system;

identification and authentication system;

loyalty payments management; and

software maintenance and upgrade.

12. The information subscribing system of claim 7, wherein transmission authentication control protocols platform identifying portable terminal device over a network connection, comprising;

requesting a unique device identifier of portable terminal device;

verifying whether received unique device identifier is associated with the portable terminal device;

identifying whether associated portable terminal device can be identified dependent upon an instant determination of information distribution platform;

permitting identified portable terminal device to access information distribution platform.

13. The information subscribing system of claim 7, wherein transmission authentication control protocols platform authenticating portable terminal device over a network connection, comprising:

requesting portable terminal device transmit a authorized key;

validating whether the transmitted authorized key is valid by appropriate license key;

authenticating validated portable terminal device dependent upon an instant determination of information distribution platform;

permitting authenticated portable terminal device to access information distribution platform.

15. The information subscribing system of claim 7, wherein said delivering information is transmitting corresponding data to the portable device by using a distributed transmission network over a network connection.

16. The information subscribing system of claim 7, wherein information distribution platform has a hierarchical distributed storage infrastructure including:

at least one host server;

a plurality of sub-host servers; and

a plurality of sub-local servers.

17. The information subscribing system of claim 7, wherein portable terminal device synchronizes with multimedia file download list for downloading multimedia content and information that consistent with download list.

18. The information subscribing system of claim 7, wherein the information distribution platform is adapted to present information to the portable terminal device.

19. The information subscribing system of claim 18, wherein said the presenting information is generated based on information from a content provider and/or a multimedia file download list of the terminal device.

20. The information subscribing system of claim 8, wherein the cryptographic key generator uses a cryptography algorithm can real time generate a authorized key.

21. The information subscribing system of claim 8, wherein the rights management controller can read the rights control options of the information data.

22. The information subscribing system of claim 8, wherein said the communication protocols complying standard wired and wireless networking protocol.

23. The information subscribing system of claim 7, wherein the system further comprises the network multimedia docking station, which is the accessory device for communication between the portable network multimedia terminal device &

the network.

24. The information subscribing system of claim 23, wherein the network docking station can receive downloading file list through corresponding terminal device, according to the downloading file list, it can download the corresponding multimedia contents through the information distribution platform.

25. The information subscribing system of claim 7, wherein said the system further comprises network multimedia transceiver.

26. The information subscribing system of claim 25, wherein said the network multimedia transceiver has its own network interface that can accept various multimedia and data contents, and store the received multimedia and data contents to its own storage devices, then through specific communication interfaces, it will connect with the multimedia players without network accessing capability, and transmit the received multimedia and data documents to the existing multimedia players without network accessing capability.

14. A method for portable terminal device accessing information distribution platform over a network connection, the method comprising:

establishing a network communication link with information distribution platform;

sending an access request to information distribution platform;

receiving an identification request;

transmitting a unique device identifier to transmission authentication control protocols platform for verifying;

accessing when get identified.