Digital Information Library and Delivery System

• US 20090150487A1
• Filed: 02/09/2009
• Published: 06/11/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/1996
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alexander Galkin, Benjamin Che-Ming Jun, Guy Story, Howard Wolfish, Igor Grebnev
• Original Assignee: Alexander Galkin, Benjamin Che-Ming Jun, Guy Story, Howard Wolfish, Igor Grebnev
• Inventors: Jun, Benjamin Che-Ming, Galkin, Alexander, Story, Guy, Grebnev, Igor, Wolfish, Howard
• Application Number:
  US12/367,760
• Publication Number:
  US 20090150487A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/1235 with control of digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3552 Downloading or loading of personalisation data
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/16 for devices exhibiting advertisements, announcements, pictures or the like
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00086 Circuits for prevention of unauthorised reproduction or copying, e.g. piracy indicating unauthorised use of record carriers in general G11B23/28; scrambling for television signal recording H04N5/913; network architectures or network protocols for network security H04L63/00; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00195 using a device identifier associated with the player or recorder, e.g. serial numbers of playback apparatuses or MAC addresses
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00695 said measures preventing that data are read from the recording medium
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/101 applying security measures for digital rights management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0823 using certificates cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving certificates H04L9/3263
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/12 Applying verification of the received information cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for data integrity or data verification H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 : Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6131 : involving transmission via a mobile phone network wireless downlink channel access H04W74/006
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 : Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 : Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A computer network based digital information library system employing authentication and encryption protocols for the secure transfer of digital information library programs to a client computer system and a mobile digital information playback device removably connectable to the client computer system. The present invention is a computer network based library and information delivery system for accessing and obtaining selected digital information files. The library and information delivery system comprises: 1) a library server having a plurality of digital information files; 2) a client computer system coupled to the library server over a network; and 3) a mobile device removably connectable to the client computer system, the client computer system including logic for requesting a download of a selected one or more of the digital information files from the library server, the client computer system further including logic for downloading the selected one or more of the digital information files to the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

transferring targeted digital information files to a removable media storage through a media reader/writer interface, wherein the targeted digital information files on the removable media storage are rendered by a mobile device having one or more identifiers, only if targeting information for the digital information files corresponds to the identifiers of the mobile device so as to indicate that the mobile device is authorized to receive the targeted digital information files.

2. The method in claim 1, wherein the mobile device comprises a playback device, and wherein the one or more identifiers comprise a player identifier.

3. The method in claim 1, wherein the mobile device comprises a playback device, and wherein the one or more identifiers comprise a player group identifier.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital information files are transferred to fixed storage on the mobile device prior to rendering.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a portion of the digital information files is transferred to the removable media storage depending on storage space available in the removable media storage.

6. A computer-readable medium having executable instructions to cause a processor to perform a method, the method comprising:

transferring targeted digital information files to a removable media storage through a media reader/writer interface, wherein the targeted digital information files on the removable media storage are rendered by a mobile device having one or more identifiers, only if targeting information for the digital information files corresponds to the identifiers of the mobile device so as to indicate that the mobile device is authorized to receive the targeted digital information files.

7. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the mobile device comprises a playback device, and wherein the one or more identifiers comprise a player identifier.

8. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the mobile device comprises a playback device, and wherein the one or more identifiers comprise a player group identifier.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the digital information files are transferred to fixed storage on the mobile device prior to rendering.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein a portion of the digital information files is transferred to the removable media storage depending on storage space available in the removable media storage.

11. A computer system comprising:

a processor coupled to a memory through a bus; and

a process executed from the memory by the processor to cause the processor to transfer targeted digital information files to a removable media storage through a media reader/writer interface, wherein the targeted digital information files on the removable media storage are rendered by a mobile device having one or more identifiers, only if targeting information for the digital information files corresponds to the identifiers of the mobile device so as to indicate that the mobile device is authorized to receive the targeted digital information files.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the mobile device comprises a playback device, and wherein the one or more identifiers comprise a player identifier.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the mobile device comprises a playback device, and wherein the one or more identifiers comprise a player group identifier.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the digital information files are transferred to fixed storage on the mobile device prior to rendering.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein a portion of the digital information files is transferred to the removable media storage depending on storage space available in the removable media storage.

16. An apparatus comprising:

means for receiving targeted digital information files; and

means for transferring the targeted digital information files to a removable media storage through a media reader/writer interface, wherein the targeted digital information files on the removable media storage are rendered by a mobile device having one or more identifiers, only if targeting information for the digital information files corresponds to the identifiers of the mobile device so as to indicate that the mobile device is authorized to receive the targeted digital information files.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising means for targeting the digital information files using a player identifier.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising means for targeting the digital information files using a player group identifier.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising means for transferring the digital information files to fixed storage on the mobile device prior to rendering.

20. A computer based library and information delivery system comprising:

a computer system connectable to a public network, the computer system including logic for transferring targeted digital programming content to a removable media storage through a media reader/writer interface, and further comprising at least one mobile device each having one or more identifiers;

wherein each mobile device includes;

logic for reading the targeted digital programming content from the removable media storage; and

logic for rendering the targeted digital programming content to a user only if targeting information in the digital programming content corresponds to the identifiers of the mobile device, so as to indicate that the mobile device is authorized to receive the targeted digital information files.

23. A computer based library and information delivery system comprising:

a computer system connectable to a public network, the computer system including logic for transferring targeted digital programming content to a removable media storage through a media reader/writer interface, the computer system further including logic for rendering the targeted digital programming content by a mobile device having one or more identifiers only if the identifiers of the mobile device corresponds to targeting information in the digital programming content.

24. The computer based library and information delivery system of claim 21, wherein the digital programming content are targeted using a group identifier.

25. The computer based library and information delivery system of claim 21, wherein the digital programming content are targeted using a player group identifier.

26. The computer based library and information delivery system of claim 21, wherein the digital programming content is transferred to fixed storage on the mobile device prior to rendering.

27. The computer based library and information delivery system of claim 21, wherein a portion of the digital programming content is transferred to the removable media storage depending on storage space available in the removable media storage.