METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AND RECEIVING CONDITIONALLY-ACCESSED VARIOUS APPLICATION INFORMATION

• US 20100232605A1
• Filed: 08/17/2007
• Published: 09/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Young In
• Application Number:
  US12/377,688
• Publication Number:
  US 20100232605A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 380/255
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/092 Coding or decoding of the information
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/094 Hardware aspects; Signal processing or signal properties, e.g. frequency bands
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/55 for traffic information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4353 involving decryption of additional data arrangements using cryptography for the use of broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/23
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/1675 Providing digital key or authorisation information for generation or regeneration of the scrambling sequence pseudo-random number generators in general G06F7/58

Abstract

The present invention provides various types of encrypted application information. An encoding method according to the present invention encrypts application information to be provided through an application service, creates a first service component frame including an ID of the application service and control data used for encryption of the application information, creates a second service component frame including the encrypted application information, organizes a data frame with the created first and second service component frames, and transmits the organized data frame.

Claims

1. A method for encoding information, comprising:

encrypting application information that is to be provided through an application service;

creating a first service component frame including identification information of the application service and control data used for encryption of the application information and creating a second service component frame including the encrypted application information; and

organizing a data frame including the first service component frame and the second component frame.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first service component frame further includes an indicator indicating that the application information has been encrypted and indicating the encryption manner.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the encrypting step encrypts the application information based on an output value obtained from a given function by applying the control data to the function as an input argument.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the control data consists of a first word and a second word that are independent of each other.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the second word comprises a plurality of words that function in same way but have mutually different applying-time points.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein value of a service component identifier identifying the first component frame is zero.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the application information is one from among status information such as road obstacles, service information of a long-distance transportation means, parking lot information, road congestion information, weather information, bus service information, local area information, and news information.

8. A method for providing information for a user, comprising:

extracting a data frame from received signals;

extracting from the extracted data frame a first service component frame including information necessary for using information service, and extracting from the extracted first service component frame identification information of an application service and decryption-related control data; and

extracting from the extracted data frame a second service component frame including information of an application service identified by the identification information, and decrypting data of the extracted second service component frame based on the decryption-related control data.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the extracting and decrypting step comprises:

receiving decryption information of the application service;

obtaining an output value with respect to the received decryption information by applying the decryption-related control data to the received decryption information as an input argument; and

decrypting data of the extracted second service component frame by using the obtained output value as a decryption key.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein a receiving route of the decryption information is different from that of the signals from which the data frame is extracted.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the receiving step of the decryption information receives the decryption information after user authentication.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the decrypting step decrypts the data of the extracted second service component frame by using a decrypting method determined based on an encryption indicator included in the extracted first service component frame.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the control data consists of a first word and a second word that are independent of each other.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the second word comprises a plurality of words that function in same way but have mutually different applying-time points.

15. The method of claim 8, wherein the first service component frame is a component frame to which zero is assigned as a value of a service component identifier.

16. The method of claim 8, further comprising decoding the decrypted data of the second service component frame.

17. The method of claim 8, wherein the information included in the second service component frame is one from among status information such as road obstacles, service information of a long-distance transportation means, parking lot information, road congestion information, weather information, bus service information, local area information, and news information.

18. A terminal apparatus of receiving information, comprising:

a demodulator configured to demodulate received signals to output a data frame;

a decoder configured to extract from the outputted data frame a first service component frame including necessary information for using information service and to extract from the extracted first service component frame identification information of application service and decryption-related control data; and

a decrypting unit configured to create a decryption key to be used for decrypting data of a second service component frame extracted from the data frame by using decryption information of the application service, and to decrypt data of the second service component by using the created decryption key.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the decoder further configured to decode data decrypted by the decrypting unit and to provide the decoded data for a controller as application information.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the controller is configured to store the application information in storage means and to output all or part of the stored information through an output device according to a given condition.

21. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein a receiving route of the decryption information is different from that of the signals from which the data frame is demodulated.

22. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the decrypting unit is configured to decrypt the data of the second service component frame by applying the decryption key and a decrypting method determined based on an encryption indicator included in the first service component frame.