Content processing apparatus and content protection program

• US 7,487,547 B2
• Filed: 10/11/2002
• Issued: 02/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Inoue, Ryuji, Matsui, Shinichi, Noguchi, Naohiko, Yagawa, Taihei, Harada, Shunji, Nakai, Shinichi
• Primary Examiner(s): ZEE, EDWARD
• Assistant Examiner(s): Besrour; Saoussen
• Application Number:
  US10/491,963
• Publication Number:
  US 20040260923A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,307 Days
• Field of Search: 380/247, 726/26, 726/1
• US Class Current: 726/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1014 to tokens
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/66 with means for preventing unauthorised or fraudulent calling verifying user identity or authority in secret or secure digital communications H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/14 including a card reading device

Abstract

A contents processing device permitting, when contents are to be stored in a recording medium, only a specified device to read out the stored contents is to be provided, and a contents processing device capable, where it is a mobile telephone, of flexibly adapting to a change of a unique telephone number or a type of the mobile telephone. For the purpose, the contents processing device for inputting and outputting contents to and from a recording medium is provided with contents storage means (RAM) for storing contents, an ID storage unit (ROM) for storing an ID capable of identifying the contents processing device, a recording medium input/output unit (memory card I/F) for inputting to and outputting from the recording medium, and a ciphering unit (ciphering program) for enciphering contents within the contents storage unit by use of a ciphering key generated from the ID within the ID storage unit and storing it from the recording medium input/output unit into the recording medium.

Claims

1. A contents processing device for outputting enciphered contents to a recording medium comprising:

a contents storage unit for storing contents;

a first ID storage unit for storing a first ID being intrinsic to said contents processing device and being capable of uniquely identifying said contents processing device;

a second ID storage unit for storing a second ID being intrinsic to said contents processing device and being capable of uniquely identifying said contents processing device and being different from the first ID;

a ciphering unit which, when said first ID is stored in said first ID storage unit, obtains said first ID from said first ID storage unit, enciphers contents within said contents storage unit by use of a title key separately generated, and enciphers said title key by use of a first ciphering key generated from said first ID, and when said first ID is not stored in said first ID storage unit, obtains said second ID from said second ID storage unit, enciphers contents within said contents storage unit by use of a title key separately generated, and enciphers said title key by use of a second ciphering key generated from said second ID;

an output unit for outputting the enciphered contents and enciphered title keys toward said recording medium.

2. The contents processing device according to claim 1, wherein said contents processing device is a mobile telephone and said first ID and second ID are a telephone number of the mobile telephone.

3. The contents processing device according to claim 1, wherein said second ID can be rewritten in the second ID storage unit.

4. The content processing device according to claim 1, wherein said second ID storage unit is detachable.

5. The contents processing device according to claim 1, wherein said recording medium has a specific memory area for storing data relating to the ciphered contents, and the contents processing device comprises an authentication means for judging whether or not access to the specific memory area of the recording media is permitted.

6. A contents processing device for inputting contents from a recording medium comprising:

an input unit for obtaining ciphered contents and ciphered title key from said recording medium;

a first ID storage unit for storing a first ID being capable of uniquely identifying said contents processing device;

a second ID storage unit for storing a second ID being capable of uniquely identifying said contents processing device and being different from the first ID;

a deciphering unit which, when said first ID is stored in said first ID storage unit, deciphers the title key ciphered by use of a first ciphering key generated from said first ID, and further deciphers the ciphered contents by use of the deciphered title key; and

when said first ID is not stored in said first ID storage unit, deciphers the title key ciphered by use of a second ciphering key generated from said second ID stored in the second ID storage unit; and

a contents storage unit for storing the deciphered contents.

7. The contents processing device according to claim 6, wherein said contents processing device is a mobile telephone and said first ID and second ID are a telephone number of the mobile telephone.

8. The contents processing device according to claim 6, wherein said second ID storage unit is detachable.

9. The contents processing device according to claim 6, wherein said recording medium stores the ciphered contents and a hash value, and said input unit obtains said hash value, and checks whether or not the ciphered contents have been correctly deciphered by comparing the obtained hash value with the hash value of the deciphered contents.

10. The contents processing device according to claim 9, wherein said first ID storage unit stores more than one first ID.

11. The contents processing device according to claim 6, wherein said recording medium has a specific memory area for storing data relating to the ciphered contents, and the contents processing device comprises an authentication means for judging whether or not access to the specific memory area of the recording media is permitted.