Contents sale system

• US 6,889,208 B1
• Filed: 03/09/2000
• Issued: 05/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Victor Company of Japan Limited (JVC Kenwood Corporation)
• Inventors: Okabe, Yasuhisa, Tanaka, Yoshiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Trammell, James P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Reagan, James A.
• Application Number:
  US09/521,773
• Time in Patent Office: 1,881 Days
• Field of Search: 705 50- 60, 705/75, 705/24, 705/39, 705/41, 380/228, 380259-262, 380/283, 380/29, 380/281, 235/380, 235/375, 235/379, 713/185, 713/193, 713/200
• US Class Current: 705/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/105 involving programming of a portable memory device, e.g. IC cards, "electronic purses"
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/1235 with control of digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/209 Specified transaction journal output feature, e.g. printed receipt or voice output
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/40104 Security; Encryption; Content protection cryptographic protocols H04L9/00; protocols for network security H04L63/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/40117 Interconnection of audio or video/imaging devices home automation networks H04L12/2803; bitstream network arrangements specially adapted for distribution of digital video signals H04N7/24

Abstract

In a contents sale system, original contents data are encrypted into encryption-resultant contents data in response to original playback key data. The original playback key data are encrypted into first encryption-resultant playback key data. The first encryption-resultant playback key data are encrypted into second encryption-resultant playback key data in response to an ID of a sale destination terminal apparatus. The encryption-resultant contents data and the second encryption-resultant playback key data are transmitted to the sale destination terminal apparatus. The sale destination terminal apparatus is enabled to decrypt the second encryption-resultant playback key data into the first encryption-resultant playback key data in response to the ID of the sale destination terminal apparatus. The sale destination terminal apparatus is enabled to decrypt the first encryption-resultant playback key data into the original playback key data. The sale destination terminal apparatus is enabled to decrypt the encryption-resultant contents data into the original contents data in response to the original playback key data.

Claims

1. In a contents sale system including a host apparatus, a sale source terminal apparatus, a sale destination terminal apparatus, and copy destination apparatus, a method comprising the steps of:

encrypting original contents data into encryption-resultant contents data in response to original playback key data by the host apparatus;

generating encryption key data on the basis of the original contents data by the host apparatus;

encrypting the original playback key data into first encryption-resultant playback key data using the encryption key data as encryption key by the host apparatus;

transmitting the encryption-resultant contents data and the first encryption-resultant playback key data to the sale source terminal apparatus by the host apparatus;

encrypting the first encryption-resultant playback key data into second encryption-resultant playback key data in response to an ID of the sale destination terminal apparatus by the sale source terminal apparatus;

transmitting the encryption-resultant contents data and the second encryption-resultant playback key data to the sale destination terminal apparatus by the sale source terminal apparatus;

enabling the sale destination terminal apparatus to decrypt the second encryption-resultant playback key data into the first encryption-resultant playback key data in response to the ID of the sale destination terminal apparatus;

enabling the sale destination terminal apparatus to decrypt the first encryption-resultant playback key data into the original playback key data;

enabling the sale destination terminal apparatus to decrypt the encryption-resultant contents data into the original contents data in response to the original playback key data;

encrypting the first encryption-resultant playback key data into third encryption-resultant playback key data in response to an ID of the copy destination terminal apparatus by the sale destination terminal apparatus; and

transmitting the encryption-resultant contents data and the third encryption-resultant playback key data to the copy destination terminal apparatus by the sale destination terminal apparatus.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising the steps of providing a sale header which corresponds to the original contents data, and encrypting the original playback key data into the first encryption-resultant playback key data in response to the sale header.

3. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the source terminal is located in a store.

4. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the source terminal comprises an Internet server, and the transmission request signal is transmitted from the Internet server to the player via an Internet client.

5. A contents sale system comprising a host apparatus, a sale source terminal apparatus, a sale destination terminal apparatus, and a copy destination apparatus;

wherein the host apparatus comprises means for encrypting original contents data into encryption-resultant contents data in response to original playback key data, means for generating encryption key data on the basis of the original contents data, means for encrypting the original playback key data into first encryption-resultant playback key data in response to the encryption key data, and means for transmitting the encryption-resultant contents data and the first encryption-resultant playback key data to the sale source terminal apparatus;

wherein the sale source terminal apparatus comprises means for encrypting the first encryption-resultant playback key data into second encryption-resultant playback key data in response to an ID of a sale destination terminal apparatus, and means for transmitting the encryption-resultant contents data and the second encryption-resultant playback key data to the sale destination terminal apparatus;

wherein the sale destination terminal apparatus comprises means for decrypting the second encryption-resultant playback key data into the first encryption-resultant playback key data in response to the ID of the sale destination terminal apparatus, means for decrypting the first encryption-resultant playback key data into the original playback key data, and means for decrypting the encryption-resultant contents data into the original contents data in response to the original playback key data; and

wherein the sale destination terminal apparatus comprises means for encrypting the first encryption-resultant playback key data into third encryption-resultant playback key data in response to an ID of the copy destination terminal apparatus, and means for transmitting the encryption-resultant contents data and the third encryption-resultant playback key data to the copy destination terminal apparatus.

6. A contents sale system as recited in claim 5, wherein the host apparatus comprises means for making the encryption-resultant contents data and the first encryption-resultant playback key data into a predetermined data structure, and means for transmitting the encryption-resultant contents data and the first encryption-resultant playback key data of the predetermined data structure to the sale source terminal apparatus.

7. A contents sale system as recited in claim 5, wherein the sale source terminal apparatus comprises means for receiving the ID of the sale destination terminal apparatus from the sale destination terminal apparatus.

8. A contents sale system as recited in claim 5, wherein the sale destination terminal apparatus comprises means for transmitting the ID of the sale destination terminal apparatus to the sale source terminal apparatus.

9. A contents sale system as recited in claim 5, wherein the copy destination terminal apparatus comprises means for decrypting the third encryption-resultant playback key data into the first encryption-resultant playback key data in response to the ID of the copy destination terminal apparatus, means for decrypting the first encryption-resultant playback key data into the original playback key data, and means for decrypting the encryption-resultant contents data into the original contents data in response to the original playback key data.

10. In a contents sale system as recited in claim 5, a medium handling data of a format for making ones of command signals and data signals transmitted between terminal apparatuses into a common format, and, in cases where a source apparatus among the terminal apparatuses transmits one of a command signal and a data signal to a destination apparatus among the terminal apparatuses, enabling the source apparatus to add an ID of the source apparatus to one of the command signal and the data signal transmitted to the destination apparatus.