Multimedia data delivery and playback system with multi-level content and privacy protection
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1. A content distribution system comprising:
- a server platform including a memory unit to store digital content and access control logic to activate a plurality of content protection mechanisms to provide multiple levels of access protection to the digital content, a first content protection mechanism includes data scrambling of the digital content and a second content protection mechanism includes visual or perceptual scrambling of the digital content so that a quality of the digital content is intentionally degraded to a level substantially inferior to an original quality of the digital content; and
a client platform in communication with the server platform, the client platform to playback segments of the digital content at one of a plurality of quality levels.
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Abstract
A content distribution system comprising a server platform and a client platform. The server platform includes a memory unit to store digital content and access control logic to activate content protection mechanisms that provide multiple levels of access protection to the digital content. In communication with the server platform, the client platform plays back segments of the digital content at one of a plurality of quality levels.
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24 Claims
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1. A content distribution system comprising:
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a server platform including a memory unit to store digital content and access control logic to activate a plurality of content protection mechanisms to provide multiple levels of access protection to the digital content, a first content protection mechanism includes data scrambling of the digital content and a second content protection mechanism includes visual or perceptual scrambling of the digital content so that a quality of the digital content is intentionally degraded to a level substantially inferior to an original quality of the digital content; and
a client platform in communication with the server platform, the client platform to playback segments of the digital content at one of a plurality of quality levels. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A server platform comprising:
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a memory unit to store digital content; and
access control logic to activate (i) a first protection mechanism to provide multiple levels of access protection to the digital content, the first content protection mechanism includes data scrambling of the digital content to enhance protection of the digital content, and (ii) a second content protection mechanism to visually or perceptually scramble the digital content so that a quality of the digital content is intentionally degraded to a level substantially inferior to an original quality of the digital content. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A client platform comprising:
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a processor having a serial number acting as an identifier to distinguish the client platform from other platforms during communication with a remotely located platform; and
a communication device coupled to the processor, the communication device providing communications with the remotely located platform to receive incoming digital content; and
access control logic to activate a first content protection mechanism to decrypt the incoming digital content and a second content protection mechanism to visually or perceptually descramble the digital content in an attempt to enhance a quality of the digital content during playback. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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17. A computer program embodied in a computer-readable medium and executable by a server platform for protecting content for unauthorized observation or manipulation, the computer program comprising:
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a data scrambling function to encrypt the digital signal prior to transmission;
a visual scrambling function to intentionally degrade a visual quality of the digital signal;
a fast watermarking fiction to embed data to identify a targeted recipient of the digital signal without effecting the visual quality of the digital signal. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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21. A method comprising:
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receiving information to identify a destination of digital content;
performing an authentication check using the information in order to determine that the destination is authorized to receive the digital content;
performing visual scrambling operations to intentionally degrade a perceived quality of the digital content;
performing data scrambling operations to encrypt the digital content; and
transmitting the digital content to the destination. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24)
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