Multimedia player toolkit for electronic content delivery

• US 7,206,748 B1
• Filed: 12/10/1998
• Issued: 04/17/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Level 3 Communications LLC (Lumen Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Gruse, George Gregory, Milsted, Kenneth Louis, Dorak, John J. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, NGA B
• Application Number:
  US09/209,440
• Time in Patent Office: 3,050 Days
• Field of Search: 705/1, 705/25, 705/8, 705/26, 703/200, 703/201, 384/4, 384/3, 384/6, 707/9, 709/227, 709/206, 380/23, 380/24, 380/25, 380/29, 380/30, 380/45, 380277-279, 380281-285
• US Class Current: 705/51
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/16 Program or content traceability, e.g. by watermarking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2135 Metering
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3674 involving authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/382 insuring higher security of transaction
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3829 involving key management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0617 Representative agent
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/603 Digital right managament [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/101 applying security measures for digital rights management data processing systems or methods, specially adapted for commerce, e.g. marketing, shopping, billing, auctions or e-commerce G06Q30/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/102 applying security measure for e-commerce data processing systems or methods, specially adapted for e-commerce G06Q30/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0822 using key encryption key
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0825 using asymmetric-key encryption or public key infrastructure [PKI], e.g. key signature or public key certificates
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A method provides a collection of data structures and subroutines in a software toolkit, for developing an application for playing digital content data. The method comprises steps of receiving previously encrypted content data encrypted with an encrypted key from an external source; storing the previously encrypted content data in a library; selecting one or more encrypted content data from the library to play; and decrypting each content data selected to be played with its unique encryption key, wherein the decrypting is performed in a tamper-resistant subroutine for deterring unauthorized access to the instructions for decrypting the content data and for deterring unauthorized access to the encryption key.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium containing program instructions for a software toolkit containing a collection of data structures and subroutines for developing an application for playing digital content data, the program instructions comprising instructions for:

receiving previously encrypted content data encrypted with an encryption key from an external source;

decrypting the received previously encrypted content data;

reencrypting the decrypted received content data with a local encrypting key wherein the local encrypting key is a type of encryption key which enables streaming playback of the encrypted content while the encrypted content is being decrypted and without the need to first decrypt the entire encrypted content;

storing the previously encrypted content data in a library;

selecting one or more encrypted content data from the library to play; and

decrypting each content data selected to bc played with its unique decryption key,

wherein the decrypting is performed in a tamper-resistant subroutine for deterring unauthorized access to the instructions for decrypting the content data and for deterring unauthorized access to the decryption key; and

;

wherein the decrypting and reencrypting instructions are performed in the tamper resistance subroutine.

2. The computer readable medium according to claim 1, wherein the step of:

reencrypting the decrypted received content data with a local encrypting key includes encrypting with a SEAL algorithm.

3. The computer readable medium according to claim 1, wherein the instruction for reencrypting the decrypted received content data utilizes a unique local decrypting key for each content data prior to storage in the library.

4. The computer readable medium according to claim 3, further comprising instruction for:

reencrypting each unique local decrypting key with a common local encryption key.

5. The computer readable medium according to claim 4, further including instructions for:

storing the unique local decrypting key in several distinct parts throughout an information processing system.

6. The computer readable medium according to claim 4, further including instructions for:

storing the common local decrypting key in several distinct parts throughout an information processing system.

7. The computer readable medium according to claim 1, further including instructions for:

creating play-lists for playing one or more content data and

playing the content data in each play list.

8. The computer readable medium according to claim 7, further including instructions for:

naming each play-list created; and

storing the named play list for playing the content data in each play list at a later time.

9. The computer readable medium according to claim 7, further including instructions for:

sorting each play-list in response to a user request.

10. The computer readable medium according to claim 1, further including instructions for:

playing each content data selected to be played; and

displaying the metadata associated with the content data.

11. A method for providing a collection of data structures and subroutines for developing an application for playing digital content data, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving previously encrypted content data encrypted with an encrypted key from an external source;

decrypting the received previously encrypted content data;

reencrypting the decrypted received content data with a local encrypting key wherein the local encrypting key is a type of encryption key which enables streaming playback of the encrypted content while the encrypted content is being decrypted and without the need to first decrypt the entire encrypted content;

storing the previously encrypted content data in a library;

selecting one or more encrypted content data from the library to play; and

decrypting each content data selected to be played with its unique decrypting key;

wherein the decrypting is performed in a tamper-resistant subroutine for deterring unauthorized access to the instructions for decrypting the content data and for deterring unauthorized access to the decrypting key; and

wherein the decrypting and reencrypting instructions are performed in the tamper resistance subroutine.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising the step of:

decrypting the received previously encrypted content data prior to storage in the library;

reencrypting the decrypted received content data with a local encrypting key includes encrypting with a SEAL algorithm.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the step for reencrypting the decrypted received content data utilizes a unique local decrypting key for each content data prior to storage in the library.

14. The method according to claim 12, further comprising the step of:

reencrypting each unique local encryption key with a common local encryption key.

15. The method according to claim 13, further comprising the step of:

storing the unique local encryption key in several distinct parts throughout an information processing system.

16. The method according to claim 12, further comprising the step of:

storing the common local encryption key in several distinct parts throughout an information processing system.

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

creating play-lists for playing one or more content data and

playing the content data in each play list.

18. The method according to claim 17, further comprising the steps of:

naming each play-list created; and

storing the named play list for playing the content data in each play list at a later time.

19. The method according to claim 17, further comprising the step of

sorting each play-list in response to a user request.

20. The method according to claim 14, further comprising the steps of:

playing each content data selected to be played; and

displaying the metadata associated with the content data.

21. An end user device for rendering encrypted content comprising:

an interface to a computer readable medium for receiving previously encrypted content data encrypted with an encrypted with a key from an external source;

an interface to a library for storage of the content;

a software application for

decrypting the received previously encrypted content;

reencrypting the decrypted received content data with a local encrypting key wherein the local encrypting key is a type of encryption key which enables streaming playback of the encrypted content while the encrypted content is being decrypted and without the need to first decrypt the entire encrypted content; and

storing the previously encrypted content data in the library;

a user interface for selecting one or more encrypted content data from the library to play; and

a tamper resistant environment which deterring unauthorized access to the instructions for decrypting the content data and for deterring unauthorized access to the decrypting key, whereby inside the tamper resistant environment each content data selected to be played is decrypted with its unique decrypting key; and

wherein the decrypting and reencrypting instructions are performed in the tamper resistance environment.

22. The end user device according to claim 21, wherein the local encrypting key includes a SEAL algorithm.

23. The end user device according to claim 21, wherein the local encrypting key includes a unique local encryption key for each content data prior to storage in the library.

24. The end user device according to claim 23, wherein the software application stores the unique local encryption key in several distinct parts throughout an information processing system.

25. The end user device according to claim 22, wherein the software application stores the common local encryption key in several distinct parts throughout an information processing system.