Method, System And Rights Issuer For Generating And Acquiring Rights Objects

• US 20080310637A1
• Filed: 07/25/2008
• Published: 12/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Li, Jincheng, Wu, Xiangyang, Yan, Jun
• Application Number:
  US12/180,099
• Publication Number:
  US 20080310637A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 380/278
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/101 applying security measures for digital rights management data processing systems or methods, specially adapted for commerce, e.g. marketing, shopping, billing, auctions or e-commerce G06Q30/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/06 for supporting key management in a packet data network cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key management H04L9/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1043 Gateway controllers, e.g. media gateway control protocol [MGCP] controllers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]

Abstract

A method and system for generating and acquiring rights objects according to the embodiments. In the present disclosure, the generation and acquisition of rights objects is implemented as a service function or a service support function; a rights issuer is deployed as an application server or as a service support entity for an application server. Therefore, the present disclosure makes full use of all existing entities and operating mechanisms in an IMS network and provides an optimized method and system for generating and acquiring rights objects. Furthermore, the rights issuer may obtain user requests or online state information of users via the IMS. In addition, the present disclosure provides a rights issuer.

Claims

1. A method for generating and acquiring rights objects, comprising:

Acquiring, by a rights issuer, online state information of a terminal via an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS);

acquiring subscriber service right information corresponding to the terminal via the IMS if the terminal is online;

generating a rights object; and

issuing the rights object to the terminal.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the process of the rights issuer acquiring the online state information of the terminal via the IMS further comprises:

acquiring, by the rights issuer, the online state information of the terminal by a third-party register, wherein a service CSCF of the IMS implements the third-party register to the rights issuer;

or

acquiring, by the rights issuer, the online state information via a presence server communicating with the IMS.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the process of determining that the terminal is online further comprises:

determining, by the rights issuer, that the terminal is online when the third-party register is successful complemented in the rights issuer;

or

determining, by the rights issuer, that the terminal is online when the rights issuer acquiring the terminal is online or go online from the presence server.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the subscriber service right information is acquired from a service configuration information server of the IMS.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the process of generating the rights object and issuing the rights object to the terminal further comprises:

generating, by the rights issuer, the rights object according to the subscriber right service information and a encrypt key of a acquired content; and

pushing the rights object to the terminal.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the process of pushing the rights object to the terminal further comprises:

pushing, by the rights issuer, the rights object to the terminal via an interface defined in Rights Object Acquisition Protocol (ROAP);

or

pushing, by the rights issuer, the rights object to the terminal via the IMS.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein, the encrypt key of the content is stored in the rights issuer;

the rights issuer carries a content identity and obtains the encrypt key from local when the encrypt key is stored in the rights issuer.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein the encrypt key of the content is stored in a key management center;

and

the rights issuer carries the content identity, queries the key management center, and obtains the encrypt key of the content corresponding to the service when the encrypt key is stored in the key management center.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the process of generating the rights object, issuing the rights object to the terminal further comprises:

transmitting, by the rights issuer, a trigger object after determining that the terminal is online;

transmitting, by the terminal, a requesting message for obtaining the rights object according to the trigger object;

generating, by the rights issuer, the rights object according to the subscriber service right information corresponding to the terminal and a encrypt key of a acquired content; and

transmitting the rights object to the terminal.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the process of transmitting the rights object to the terminal further comprises transmitting the rights object to the terminal via ROAP protocol interface, or transmitting the rights object to the terminal via the IMS.

11. A method for generating and obtaining a rights object, comprising:

by a rights issuer, obtaining a requesting message of rights object via multimedia subsystem (IMS), and obtaining subscriber service right information corresponding to a terminal;

generating the object rights, and issuing the rights object to the terminal.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the process of the rights issuer obtaining the requesting message of rights object via IMS further comprises:

by an application server of the IMS, receiving a user request from the terminal, determining that the terminal is requesting for a trigger object, forwarding the user request to the rights issuer, forwarding the trigger object received from the rights issuer to the terminal;

transmitting, by the terminal, a requesting message for obtaining the rights object according to the received trigger object; and

obtaining, by the rights issuer, the requesting message for obtaining the rights object according to the request from the terminal.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the process of the application server determining the terminal requesting the trigger object further comprises:

the user request including requesting the trigger object, the application server determining the terminal requesting the trigger object according to the received request;

or

the user request including requesting service, the application server determining the terminal requesting trigger object according to an indication or an attribute of the service carried in the request.

14. The method according to claim 11, wherein the process of the rights issuer obtaining the requesting message of the rights object further comprises:

receiving, by an application server of the IMS, a user request from the terminal, determining the terminal requesting rights object, forwarding the user request to the rights issuer; and

obtaining, by the rights issuer, requesting message of the rights object according to the user request from the application server.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the process of the application server determining the terminal requesting rights object further comprises:

the user request comprising requesting rights object, the application server determining the terminal requesting rights object according to the request;

or

the user request comprising requesting service information, the application server determining the terminal requesting rights object according to an indication or an attribute of the service carried in the request.

16. The method according to claim 11, wherein the process of the rights issuer obtaining request message of the rights object via the IMS further comprises:

initiating, by the terminal, request rights object to the rights issuer via the IMS being registered in the IMS; and

obtaining, by the rights issuer, the request message of the rights object according to the received request.

17. The method according to claim 11, wherein the process of the rights issuer generating the rights object further comprises:

generating, by the rights issuer, the rights object according to the subscriber service rights information corresponding to the terminal and a encrypt key of a obtained content;

storing the encrypt key of the obtained content in the rights issuer or a key management center;

carrying, by the rights issuer, a content identity and obtaining the encrypt key from local when the encrypt key is stored in the rights issuer; and

by the rights issuer, carrying the content identity, querying the key management center, and obtaining the encrypt key of the content corresponding to the service when the encrypt key is stored in the key management center.

18. A system for generating and acquiring a rights object, comprising:

a terminal;

a rights issuer configured to receive a request of the rights object, generate the rights object, and issue the rights object to the terminal;

a Proxy-Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF);

a serving Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) and a service configuration information server connected to the rights issuer and S-CSCF, respectively, and configured to store corresponding service configuration information.

19. The system according to claim 18, further comprising a presence server configured to obtain online state of the terminal and notice the rights issuer.

20. A system for generating and acquiring a rights object, comprising:

a terminal;

a rights issuer configured to receive the request for obtaining the rights object, generate the rights object, and issue the rights object to the terminal;

a Proxy-Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF);

a serving Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF);

an application server configured to forward the request to the rights issuer, return a trigger object, the rights object generated by the rights issuer to the terminal; and

a service configuration information configured to store corresponding service configuration information.

21. A rights issuer, comprising:

a subscriber service rights information obtaining unit configured to obtain subscriber service rights information from a service configuration server of multimedia subsystem (IMS) according to a received indication;

a rights object generating unit configured to generate rights object according to the subscriber service right information and a encrypt key of a acquired content; and

a rights object issuing unit configured to issue the rights object.

22. The rights issuer according to claim 21, further comprising:

a terminal state obtaining unit, configured to obtain on-line state information of the terminal via a serving Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) of IMS or a presence server connected to the IMS network, and transmit an indication to the subscriber service rights information obtaining unit after determining that the terminal is on-line.

23. The rights issuer according to claim 21, wherein the rights object issuing unit comprises an interface unit for interacting with a S-CSCF, configured to issue the rights object to the terminal via the S-CSCF.

24. The rights issuer according to claim 21, wherein the rights object issuing unit comprises an interface for interacting with a terminal configured to directly issue the rights object to the terminal.