DRM SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING DRM CONTENT

• US 20090044008A1
• Filed: 12/18/2007
• Published: 02/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Lim, Ji Hyun
• Application Number:
  US11/959,160
• Publication Number:
  US 20090044008A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1012 to domains

Abstract

The present invention relate to a DRM system and a method of managing DRM content, which allow the user of content protected by DRM to use DRM content even through an unconnected device, which is not connected to a network. The DRM system includes a DRM server for issuing a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)-based certificate and a key pair to an unconnected device via a network client connected to the unconnected device so as to allow the unconnected device to share a right to DRM content with the network client and to authenticate the unconnected device and permit the unconnected device to join a domain on a basis of the certificate and the key pair via the network client.

Claims

1. A Digital Rights Management (DRM) system, comprising a DRM server for issuing a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)-based certificate and a key pair to an unconnected device via a network client, connected to the unconnected device so as to allow the unconnected device to share a right to DRM content with the network client and to authenticate the unconnected device and permit the unconnected device to join a domain on a basis of the certificate and the key pair via the network client.

2. The DRM system according to claim 1, wherein the unconnected device is car audio equipment provided with a storage unit for storing at least the certificate and the key pair, and a communication module, such as a Universal Serial Bus (USB) port or a Bluetooth module for connecting to the network client

3. The DRM system according to claim 1, wherein the DRM server comprises a sub-certificate issuing server authorized by a certificate issuing server to issue a certificate instead of the certificate issuing server, the certificate being issued to the unconnected device through the sub-certificate issuing server.

4. The DRM system according to claim 3, wherein the sub-certificate issuing server is a separate sub-certificate issuing institution managed by a car production company or a car audio equipment production company.

5. The DRM system according to claim 3, wherein the certificate is issued to the unconnected device by the sub-certificate issuing server through a Personal Computer (PC) at a stage of manufacturing the unconnected device.

6. The DRM system according to claim 3, wherein the certificate is issued to the unconnected device by the sub-certificate issuing server through a handset device that supports a wireless network.

7. The DRM system according to claim 3, wherein authentication and domain joining of the unconnected device are performed after the unconnected device is connected to the DRM server via a handset device that supports a wireless network.

8. The DRM system according to claim 1, wherein the network client comprises an application for transmitting the DRM content and the rights object to the unconnected device, with the DRM content and the rights object combined into a single object, and wherein integrity before and after the DRM object and the rights object are combined into a single object is verified by the unconnected device.

9. The DRM system according to claim 8, wherein the application is configured to embed the rights object in a DRM Content Format (DCF) and also to embed Hash-based Message Authentication Code (HMAC) data, required to verify integrity of the DCF in which the rights object is embedded, in the DCF together with the rights object.

10. A method of managing Digital Rights Management (DRM) content, comprising:

issuing by a DRM server a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)-based certificate and a key pair to an unconnected device via a network client after the DRM server is connected to the unconnected device through the network client; and

authenticating by the DRM server the unconnected device and joining the unconnected device to a domain, which the network client has joined, on a basis of the certificate and the key pair issued to the unconnected device, via the network client after the DRM server is connected to the unconnected device through the network client.

wherein the issuance of the certificate to the unconnected device by the DRM server is performed through a separate sub-certificate issuing server having a trustworthy relationship with a certificate issuing server of the DRM server.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the certificate is issued to the unconnected device by the sub-certificate issuing server through a Personal Computer (PC) at a stage of manufacturing the unconnected device, or is issued to the unconnected device by the sub-certificate issuing server through a handset device that supports a wireless network.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein authenticating by the DRM server the unconnected device and joining the unconnected device to the domain is performed after the unconnected device is connected to the DRM server via a handset device that supports a wireless network.