MULTI-STREAM ENCRYPTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND HOST DEVICE FOR MULTI-CHANNEL RECORDING

• US 20100158480A1
• Filed: 08/27/2009
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: KWON, O Hyung, LEE, Soo In, JUNG, Joon Young
• Application Number:
  US12/548,805
• Publication Number:
  US 20100158480A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/252
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2005/91364 the video signal being scrambled
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4405 involving video stream decryption
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4623 Processing of entitlement messages, e.g. ECM [Entitlement Control Message] or EMM [Entitlement Management Message] arrangements for conditional access to broadcast information or to broadcast-related services H04H60/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/913 for scrambling ; for copy protection

Abstract

A multi-stream encryption apparatus and method, and a host device for multi-channel recording of a plurality of fee-based broadcasting services in a Downloadable Conditional Access System (DCAS) are provided.

Claims

1. A host device, comprising:

a modulation unit to receive communication data via a multi-channel, and to demodulate and output a transport stream of the multi-channel;

a security module to receive and descramble the transport stream outputted from the modulation unit, and to encrypt the descrambled transport stream; and

a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) unit to record the encrypted transport stream.

2. The host device of claim 1, wherein the security module comprises:

a Secure Micro (SM) processor unit to extract a Control Word (CW) and Copy Control Information (CCI) from the transport stream of the multi-channel through a Conditional Access (CA) client, and to generate an encryption key from the extracted CCI through an Authorized Service Domain (ASD) client; and

a transport processor unit to descramble the transport stream of the multi-channel using the CW, and to encrypt the descrambled transport stream using the encryption key.

3. The host device of claim 2, wherein the transport processor unit comprises:

a CA descrambler to descramble the transport stream of the multi-channel using the CW; and

an ASD encryption unit to encrypt the descrambled transport stream, received from the CA descrambler, using the encryption key.

4. The host device of claim 2, wherein the transport processor unit comprises:

an ASD decryption unit to decrypt the encrypted transport stream, outputted from the DVR unit, using a decryption key received from the ASD client.

5. The host device of claim 3, wherein the ASD encryption unit comprises:

a multiplexing unit to multiplex the descrambled transport stream of the multi-channel into a multi-stream;

a filter unit to filter a Transport Stream (TS) packet of the multiplexed multi-stream;

an encryption unit to encrypt the filtered multi-stream; and

a demultiplexing unit to demultiplex the encrypted multi-stream based on the multi-channel.

6. The host device of claim 5, wherein the ASD encryption unit further comprises:

an encryption control unit to receive the encryption key or information corresponding to the transport stream of the multi-channel from the ASD client, and to control the encryption of the multiplexed multi-stream; and

a counter unit to generate a clock counter for compensating for a jitter of a Packet Clock Reference (PCR) corresponding to the descrambled transport stream.

7. The host device of claim 6, wherein the filter unit filters the multiplexed multi-stream based on program information corresponding to the transport stream of the multi-channel, received from the encryption control unit, to output the TS packet.

8. The host device of claim 6, wherein the multiplexed multi-stream includes pre-header information including local Transport Stream Identification information (TSID) to identify the transport stream of the multi-channel, and local time information to compensate for the jitter of the PCR.

9. The host device of claim 8, wherein the encryption unit encrypts the filtered multi-stream using the encryption key based on the local TSID and Program Identification information (PID).

10. The host device of claim 8, wherein the demultiplexing unit compensates for the jitter of the PCR based on the local time information, removes the pre-header information of the encrypted multi-stream where the jitter of the PCR is compensated for, and demultiplexes the encrypted multi-stream based on the multi-channel using the local TSID.

11. The host device of claim 8, wherein the demultiplexing unit compares local time difference information with clock counter difference information to compensate for the jitter of the PCR, the local time difference information being calculated from first local time information of a first TS packet and second local time information of a second TS packet, the clock counter difference information being calculated from first clock counter information of the first TS packet and second clock counter information of the second TS packet, and the first clock counter information and the second clock counter information being received from the counter unit.

12. The host device of claim 6, wherein the multiplexing unit comprises:

a TS receiving unit to receive the descrambled transport stream of the multi-channel for each channel;

a pre-header generation unit to generate pre-header information, to insert the pre-header information in the descrambled transport stream, received from the TS receiving unit, and to output the descrambled transport stream; and

a First-In First-Out (FIFO) output unit to receive the descrambled transport stream for each of the channels, outputted from the pre-header generation unit, to output the received transport stream in a predetermined order, and to multiplex the transport stream into the multi-stream.

13. The host device of claim 6, wherein the demultiplexing unit comprises:

a pre-header check unit to analyze local TSID used to identify the transport stream of the multi-channel from pre-header information included in the encrypted multi-stream;

a FIFO input unit to demultiplex the encrypted multi-stream based on the multi-channel using the analyzed local TSID; and

a PCR compensation unit to compensate for the jitter of the PCR based on the pre-header information and the clock counter.

14. A multi-stream encryption apparatus, comprising:

a multiplexing unit to multiplex a descrambled transport stream of a multi-channel into a multi-stream;

a filter unit to filter a TS packet of the multiplexed multi-stream;

an encryption unit to encrypt the multiplexed multi-stream;

a demultiplexing unit to demultiplex the encrypted multi-stream based on the multi-channel; and

a counter unit to generate a clock counter for compensating for a jitter of a PCR with respect to the descrambled transport stream of the multi-channel.

15. The multi-stream encryption apparatus of claim 14, further comprising:

an encryption control unit to receive an encryption key or information corresponding to the transport stream of the multi-channel from an ASD client, and to control the encryption of the multiplexed multi-stream.

16. A multi-stream encryption method, comprising:

multiplexing a transport stream corresponding to a multi-channel into a multi-stream through a multiplexing unit;

filtering a TS packet of the multiplexed multi-stream;

encrypting the multiplexed multi-stream; and

demultiplexing the encrypted multi-stream based on the multi-channel.

17. The multi-stream encryption method of claim 16, wherein the multiplexing comprises:

receiving an initial message from an ASD client and initializing an encryption unit;

receiving an encryption key or program information about the transport stream corresponding to the multi-channel from the ASD client; and

setting a filter unit based on the program information.