Conditional access system enabling partial viewing
First Claim
1. A conditional access system comprising:
- a demultiplexer for demultiplexing a packet stream transmitted from a transmitting site into encrypted coded media data, an ECM (Entitlement Control Message) and an EMM (Entitlement Management Message);
an EMM decryption section for retrieving work keys and partial viewing authorization information from the EMM extracted by said demultiplexer;
an ECM decryption section for decrypting the ECM using the work keys and for intermittently retrieving scrambling keys from the ECM, based on receiving control information to alternately enable and disable decrypting, when the partial viewing authorization information retrieved by said EMM decryption section permits partial viewing;
a media data descrambling section for intermittently descrambling the coded media data using the scrambling keys intermittently retrieved by said ECM decryption section; and
a decoding section for decoding the coded media data intermittently descrambled by said media data descrambling section.
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Abstract
A conditional access system includes an EMM (Entitlement Management Message) analyzer for retrieving partial viewing authorization information. When the partial viewing authorization information permits partial viewing, ECM (Entitlement Control Message) is decrypted using work keys, and scrambling keys are intermittently retrieved from the ECM. This can solve a problem of a conventional conditional access system in that an unauthorized user'"'"'s receiver cannot display pictures at all because the receiver cannot retrieve scrambling keys, and hence the user cannot enjoy a program even to such a degree as to perceive its feeling as in analog broadcasting systems, and thus the user cannot decide as to whether to make contract or not with viewing the program to some extent, which prevents the provider of the program from offering effective invitation to the user.
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19 Claims
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1. A conditional access system comprising:
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a demultiplexer for demultiplexing a packet stream transmitted from a transmitting site into encrypted coded media data, an ECM (Entitlement Control Message) and an EMM (Entitlement Management Message);
an EMM decryption section for retrieving work keys and partial viewing authorization information from the EMM extracted by said demultiplexer;
an ECM decryption section for decrypting the ECM using the work keys and for intermittently retrieving scrambling keys from the ECM, based on receiving control information to alternately enable and disable decrypting, when the partial viewing authorization information retrieved by said EMM decryption section permits partial viewing;
a media data descrambling section for intermittently descrambling the coded media data using the scrambling keys intermittently retrieved by said ECM decryption section; and
a decoding section for decoding the coded media data intermittently descrambled by said media data descrambling section. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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2. A conditional access system comprising:
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a demultiplexer for demultiplexing a packet stream transmitted from a transmitting site into encrypted coded media data, an ECM (Entitlement Control Message) and an EMM (Entitlement Management Message);
an EMM decryption section for retrieving work keys and partial viewing authorization information from the EMM extracted by said demultiplexer;
an ECM decryption section for decrypting the ECM using the work keys and for retrieving scrambling keys from the ECM, when the partial viewing authorization information retrieved by said EMM decryption section permits partial viewing, wherein said ECM decryption section retrieves only part of the scrambling keys included in the ECM;
a media data descrambling section for intermittently descrambling the coded media data using the scrambling keys which are intermittently retrieved from said ECM decryption section; and
a decoding section for decoding the coded media data intermittently descrambled by said media data descrambling section.
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3. A conditional access system comprising:
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a demultiplexer for demultiplexing a packet stream transmitted from a transmitting site into encrypted coded media data, an ECM (Entitlement Control Message) and an EMM (Entitlement Management Message);
an EMM decryption section for retrieving work keys and partial viewing authorization information from the EMM extracted by said demultiplexer;
an ECM decryption section for decrypting the ECM using the work keys and for intermittently retrieving scrambling keys from the ECM, when the partial viewing authorization information retrieved by said EMM decryption section permits partial viewing;
a media data descrambling section for intermittently descrambling the coded media data using the scrambling keys intermittently retrieved by said ECM decryption section; and
a decoding section for decoding the coded media data intermittently descrambled by said media data descrambling section;
wherein said ECM decryption section retrieves all the scrambling keys included in the ECM and supplies said media data descrambling section with only part of the scrambling keys.
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4. A conditional access system comprising:
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a demultiplexer for demultiplexing a packet stream transmitted from a transmitting site into encrypted coded media data, an ECM (Entitlement Control Message) and an EMM (Entitlement Management Message);
an EMM decryption section for retrieving work keys and partial viewing authorization information from the EMM extracted by said demultiplexer;
an ECM decryption section for decrypting the ECM using the work keys retrieved by said EMM decryption section and for retrieving scrambling keys from the ECM;
a media data descrambling section for intermittently descrambling the coded media data using the scrambling keys, based on receiving control information to alternately enable and disable descrambling, when the partial viewing authorization information retrieved by said EMM decryption section permits partial viewing; and
a decoding section for decoding the coded media data intermittently descrambled by said media data descrambling section. - View Dependent Claims (5)
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6. A conditional access system comprising:
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a demultiplexer for demultiplexing a packet stream transmitted from a transmitting site into encrypted coded media data, an ECM (Entitlement Control Message) and an EMM (Entitlement Management Message);
an EMM decryption section for retrieving work keys and partial viewing authorization information from the EMM extracted by said demultiplexer;
an ECM decryption section for decrypting the ECM using the work keys retrieved by said EMM decryption section and for retrieving scrambling keys from the ECM;
a media data descrambling section for descrambling the coded media data using the scrambling keys retrieved by said ECM decryption section; and
a decoding section for intermittently decoding the coded media data descrambled by said media data descrambling section, based on receiving control information to alternately enable and disable decoding, when the partial viewing authorization information retrieved by said EMM decryption section permits partial viewing. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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9. A conditional access system comprising:
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a demultiplexer for demultiplexing a packet stream transmitted from a transmitting site into encrypted coded media data, an ECM (Entitlement Control Message) and an EMM (Entitlement Management Message);
an EMM decryption section for retrieving work keys and partial viewing authorization information from the EMM extracted by said demultiplexer;
an ECM decryption section for decrypting the ECM using the work keys retrieved by said EMM decryption section and for retrieving scrambling keys from the ECM;
a media data descrambling section for descrambling the coded media data using the scrambling keys retrieved by said ECM decryption section; and
a decoding section for intermittently decoding the coded media data descrambled by said media data descrambling section when the partial viewing authorization information retrieved by said EMM decryption section permits partial viewing;
wherein said decoding section decodes all the coded media data descrambled by said media data descrambling section and supplies only part of the decoded coded media data to a television receiver.
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10. A conditional access system comprising:
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a demultiplexer for demultiplexing a packet stream transmitted from a transmitting site into encrypted coded media data, an ECM (Entitlement Control Message) and an EMM (Entitlement Management Message);
an EMM decryption section for retrieving partial viewing authorization information from the EMM extracted by said demultiplexer, said EMM decryption section intermittently retrieving work keys from the EMM, based on receiving control information to alternately enable and disable decryption, when the partial viewing authorization information permits partial viewing;
an ECM decryption section for intermittently decrypting the ECM using the work keys intermittently retrieved by said EMM decryption section and for intermittently retrieving scrambling keys from the ECM;
a media data descrambling section for intermittently descrambling the coded media data using the scrambling keys intermittently retrieved by said ECM decryption section; and
a decoding section for decoding the coded media data intermittently descrambled by said media data descrambling section. - View Dependent Claims (11)
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12. A conditional access system comprising:
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a demultiplexer for demultiplexing a packet stream transmitted from a transmitting site into encrypted coded media data, an ECM (Entitlement Control Message) and an EMM (Entitlement Management Message);
an EMM decryption section for retrieving partial viewing authorization information from the EMM extracted by said demultiplexer, said EMM decryption section retrieving work keys from the EMM when the partial viewing authorization information permits partial viewing;
an ECM decryption section for intermittently decrypting the ECM using the work keys which are intermittently retrieved from said EMM decryption section and for intermittently retrieving scrambling keys from the ECM, wherein said EMM decryption section retrieves all the work keys included in the EMM and supplies only part of the work keys to said ECM decryption section;
a media data descrambling section for intermittently descrambling the coded media data using the scrambling keys intermittently retrieved by said ECM decryption section; and
a decoding section for decoding the coded media data intermittently descrambled by said media data descrambling section.
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13. A conditional access system comprising:
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a demultiplexer for demultiplexing a packet stream transmitted from a transmitting site into encrypted coded media data, an ECM (Entitlement Control Message) and an EMM (Entitlement Management Message);
an EMM decryption section for retrieving work keys and partial viewing authorization information from the EMM extracted by said demultiplexer;
an ECM decryption section for decrypting the ECM using the work keys and for intermittently retrieving scrambling keys from the ECM, when the partial viewing authorization information retrieved by said EMM decryption section permits partial viewing;
a media data descrambling section for intermittently descrambling the coded media data using the scrambling keys intermittently retrieved by said ECM decryption section; and
a decoding section for decoding the coded media data intermittently descrambled by said media data descrambling section;
wherein said ECM decryption section, instead of said EMM decryption section, retrieves the partial viewing authorization information from the ECM when the partial viewing authorization information is included in the ECM.
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