SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DRM CONTENT MANAGEMENT

• US 20110047080A1
• Filed: 08/17/2010
• Published: 02/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: IM, Kwan-Hyuk, HAN, Kyu-Hui
• Application Number:
  US12/857,971
• Publication Number:
  US 20110047080A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/59
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1079 Return

Abstract

A system for managing a Digital Rights Management (DRM) content includes a content providing server for providing an environment, through which a DRM content and a digital right of the DRM content can be registered, a service providing server for issuing a license serving as a usage authority for each of DRM content files provided from the content providing server, generating a license revocation execution value in a specific field of the issued license, encrypting the generated license revocation execution value for transmission to a user terminal, and the user terminal for inspecting the license of the DRM content file transmitted from the service providing server, and extracting and storing the license and the license revocation execution value to use a corresponding DRM content file according to the license, and upon receiving a revocation request, transmitting a revocation result of the corresponding license to the service providing server.

Claims

1. A system for managing a Digital Rights Management (DRM), comprising:

a content providing server for providing a plurality of DRM contents and retrieving a license;

a service providing server for issuing a license serving as a usage authority for each of DRM content files provided from the content providing server, generating a license revocation execution value in a specific field of the issued license, encrypting the generated license revocation execution value; and

a user terminal for inspecting the license of the DRM content file transmitted from the service providing server, and extracting and storing the license and the encrypted license revocation execution value to use a corresponding DRM content file, and upon receiving a revocation request, transmitting a revocation result of the corresponding license to the service providing server.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the usage authority of the DRM content file has expired, the service providing server transmits a license revocation request list to the user terminal to revoke the license issued for the corresponding DRM content file, the license revocation request list including a license ID for each of the DRM content files corresponding to the expired usage authority with a revocation execution code key value for decrypting the encrypted generated revocation execution value.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the revocation result of the corresponding license of the user terminal corresponds to one of (1) decrypting of the encrypted licensed revocation execution value of the DRM content file using a revocation execution code key value provided in a revocation license list received from the service providing server, and in response, transmitting the revocation code value serving as decryption result information together with the corresponding revoked license ID and (2) refusing a license revocation for the corresponding DRM content file.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein upon receipt of the revocation result from the service providing server, granting, by the content providing server, an advantage of recall, refund, or usage term extension for the DRM content file corresponding to the revoked license.

5. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user terminal periodically checks a corresponding license of each of the DRM content file, and when the usage authority of the DRM content file has expired as a result of the check, the user terminal transmits a license re-issuance request message of the corresponding DRM content file to the service providing server.

6. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein upon receiving a license re-issuance request message of specific DRM content file from the user terminal, the service providing server transmitting a corresponding license ID and a revocation execution code key value to the user terminal to re-issues the license of the specific DRM content file.

7. A method for managing a DRM content, the method comprising:

registering, by a content providing server, a DRM content and a digital right of the DRM content;

issuing, by a service providing server, a license serving as a usage authority for each of DRM content files, generating a license revocation execution value in a specific field of the issued license, encryption the generated license revocation execution value, and transmitting the encrypted license revocation execution value;

inspecting, by a terminal, a transmitted DRM content file, and extracting and storing the license and the encrypted license revocation execution value;

when the usage authority of the DRM content file has expired, generating and transmitting a license revocation request list including a license ID of a corresponding DRM content file matched with a license revocation code value; and

decrypting the encrypted license revocation execution value of the corresponding DRM content file by using the revocation code value obtained through the received license revocation request list, and transmitting a revocation execution code key value serving as decryption result information.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, further comprising granting an advantage of recall, refund, or usage term extension for the corresponding DRM content file to the terminal that has transmitted the decryption result information.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7, further comprising:

periodically checking, by the terminal, a corresponding license of each of the DRM content files, and when a usage authority of the DRM content file has expired as a result of the checking, transmitting a license re-issuance request message of corresponding DRM content file to the service providing server; and

when the service providing server has received the license re-issuance request message for specific DRM content file, transmitting a corresponding license ID and another revocation code value to the terminal through the license revocation request list and re-issuing the license of the specific DRM content file.