Multimedia network system

• US 5,159,633 A
• Filed: 01/15/1991
• Issued: 10/27/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Gregory, Bernarr E.
• Application Number:
  US07/641,879
• Time in Patent Office: 651 Days
• Field of Search: 380/10, 380/20, 380/30, 380/49, 380/3-5, 380/9, 380/21, 380/43, 380/50, 380/46
• US Class Current: 380/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/56 Financial cryptography, e.g. electronic payment or e-cash
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/60 Digital content management, e.g. content distribution
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/088 Usage controlling of secret information, e.g. techniques for restricting cryptographic keys to pre-authorized uses, different access levels, validity of crypto-period, different key- or password length, or different strong and weak cryptographic algorithms network architectures or network communication protocols for using time-dependent keys in a packet data network H04L63/068
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/12 Transmitting and receiving encryption devices synchronised or initially set up in a particular manner
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3247 involving digital signatures
• 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

There is disclosed a multimedia network system for transmitting real-time communication type information such as a television video signal and storage type information such as a computer file using at least one transmission path. The real-time communication type information is encrypted by a secret-key system, and the storage type information is encrypted by a public-key system. A common encryption key of the public-key system is changed in each communication. High-speed information can be safely encrypted and transmitted.

Claims

1. A multimedia network system for transmitting real-time communication type information and storage type information using at least one transmission path, comprising:

a transmitting terminal comprising secret-key encryption means for encrypting the real-time communication type information by a secret-key system in which only transmitting and receiving terminals of the information have encryption and decryption keys, public-key encryption means for encrypting the storage type information by a public-key system in which all the terminals commonly share their own encryption keys, and only a receiving terminal of the information has its own decryption key, and control means for causing said secret-key encryption means to change a common encryption key in each communication, and causing said public-key encryption means to encrypt and transmit the changed key.

2. A multimedia network system for communicating real-time communication type information and storage type information using at least one transmission path, comprising:

a receiving terminal comprising secret-key decryption means for decrypting the real-time communication type information by a secret-type system in which only transmitting and receiving terminals of the information have encryption and decryption keys, public-key decryption means for decrypting the storage type information by a public-key decryption means for decrypting the storage type information by a public-key system in which all the terminals commonly share their own encryption keys, and only a receiving terminal of the information has its own decryption key, and secret-key control means for causing said secret-key decryption means to change a common decryption key in each communication.

3. A multimedia network system for transmitting real-time communication type information and storage type information using at least one transmission path, comprising:

a transmitting terminal comprising secret-key encryption means for encrypting the real-time communication type information by a secret-key system in which only transmitting and receiving terminals of the information have encryption and decryption keys, public-key encryption means for encrypting the storage type information by a public-key system in which all the terminals commonly share their own encryption keys, and only a receiving terminal of the information has its own decryption key, and first control means for causing said secret-key encryption means to change a common encryption key in each communication, and causing said public key encryption means to encrypt and transmit the changed key; and

a receiving terminal comprising a secret-key decryption means for decrypting the real-time communication type information by secret-key system in which only transmitting and receiving terminals of the information have encryption and decryption keys, public-key decryption means for decrypting the storage type information by a public-key system in which all the terminals commonly have their own encryption keys, and only a receiving terminal of the information has its own description key, and second control means for causing said secret-key decryption means to change a common decryption key in each communication.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein said transmitting terminal for performing encryption using the secret-key by said secret-key encryption means or said receiving terminal for performing decryption using the secret-key by said secret-key decryption means further comprises time measurement means for measuring an encryption or decryption time, and charge means for calculating charge information in accordance with a transmission or reception time of information measured by said time measurement means.

5. The system according to claim 3, wherein a file for ordering information from said receiving terminal to said transmitting terminal, and the real-time communication type information transmitted from said transmitting terminal to said receiving terminal in accordance with the file are encrypted using the secret-key by said secret-key encryption means, and a reception confirmation file for the real-time communication type information, which file is transmitted from said receiving terminal to said transmitting terminal, and a charge demand file from said transmitting terminal to said receiving terminal are encrypted by said public key encryption means, and are decrypted by the decryption key inherent to said receiving terminal.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein said secret-key encryption means of said transmitting terminal encrypts real-time communication type information by logically EX-ORing a real-time communication type information string and a pseudo random number string generated based on the stored data encryption key, and transmits the encrypted real-time communication type information.

7. The system according to claim 5, wherein said secret-key encryption means of said receiving terminal decrypts real-time communication type information by logically EX-ORing a received real-time communication type information string and a pseudo random number string generated based on the stored data encryption key.

8. The system according to claim 5, wherein

said transmitting terminal further comprises digital signature means for putting a digital signature for certifying a transmission source simultaneously with encryption when files are transmitted, and

said receiving terminal further comprises confirmation means for confirming the digital signature.

9. A data communication method for transmitting data from a first terminal to a second terminal, comprising the steps of:

encrypting data, which is requested for transmission by the second terminal, using a secret-key cryptographic system in the first terminal;

transmitting the data encrypted by the secret-key cryptographic system from the first terminal to the second terminal;

decrypting the data encrypted by the secret-key cryptographic system and received from the first terminal in the second terminal;

encrypting an electronic slip corresponding to the transmission of the data encrypted by the secret-key cryptographic system using a public-key cryptographic system in one of said first and second terminals;

sending the electronic slip encrypted by the public-key cryptographic system to the other one of said first and second terminals; and

decrypting the encrypted electronic slip in the other one of said first and second terminal.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising the steps of:

determining a common secret kay for the secret-key cryptographic system in the first terminal;

encrypting the common secret key by the public-key cryptographic system in the first terminal;

transmitting the common secret key from the first terminal to the second terminal; and

decrypting the encrypted common secret key received from the first terminal in the second terminal.

11. The method according to claim 9, further comprising the steps of:

measuring a time for encrypting data by the secret-key cryptographic system in the first terminal; and

calculating a charge in accordance with the measuring time.

12. The method according to claim 9, further comprising the steps of:

measuring a time for decryption data by a secret-key decryptographic system in the second terminal; and

calculating a charge in accordance with the measured time.

13. The method according to claim 9, further comprising the steps of:

generating a digital signature in the one of the first and second terminals by decrypting a text in accordance with a respective decryption key for the public-key cryptographic system;

adding the digital signature to the electronic slip to be transmitted;

confirming the digital signature in the other one of the first and second terminals by encrypting in accordance with a public encryption key, specific to the one of the first and second terminals, for the public-key cryptographic system.

14. A data communication method for transmitting data from a first terminal to a second terminal, comprising the steps of:

encrypting, in the second terminal, a request to the first terminal for data transmission by a public-key cryptographic system;

sending the encrypted request from the second terminal to the first terminal;

decrypting the encrypted request received from the second terminal in the first terminal;

encrypting data corresponding the decrypted request by a secret-key cryptographic system in the first terminal;

transmitting the encrypted data from the first terminal to the second terminal; and

decrypting the encrypted data received from the first terminal in the second terminal.