Read-only recording medium containing sample data and reproducing method thereof

• US 7,650,311 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2006
• Issued: 01/19/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Byung Jin, Kim, Hyung Sun
• Primary Examiner(s): Elisca; Pierre E
• Application Number:
  US11/511,409
• Publication Number:
  US 20060294009A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,239 Days
• Field of Search: 705/50, 705/51, 705/57
• US Class Current: 705/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/382 insuring higher security of transaction
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00086 Circuits for prevention of unauthorised reproduction or copying, e.g. piracy indicating unauthorised use of record carriers in general G11B23/28; scrambling for television signal recording H04N5/913; network architectures or network protocols for network security H04L63/00; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00094 involving measures which result in a restriction to authorised record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00115 wherein the record carrier stores a unique medium identifier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/0021 involving encryption or decryption of contents recorded on or reproduced from a record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00224 wherein the key is obtained from a remote server
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00246 wherein the key is obtained from a local device, e.g. device key initially stored by the player or by the recorder
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00507 wherein consecutive physical data units of the record carrier are encrypted with separate encryption keys, e.g. the key changes on a cluster or sector basis
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00673 wherein the erased or nullified data include a cryptographic key
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/0071 involving a purchase action
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00818 wherein the usage restriction limits the signal quality, e.g. by low-pass filtering of audio signals or by reducing the resolution of video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00978 wherein the record carrier stores a trial version of a content
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/213 Read-only discs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2005/91364 the video signal being scrambled
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42646 for reading from or writing on a non-volatile solid state storage medium, e.g. DVD, CD-ROM
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/63345 by transmitting keys key distribution for secret or secure communication H04L9/08; network support of key management H04L63/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/913 for scrambling ; for copy protection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/1675 : Providing digital key or authorisation information for generation or regeneration of the scrambling sequence pseudo-random number generators in general G06F7/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 : involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 : the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

The present invention provides according to an embodiment a method of reproducing digital content, comprising the steps of: (a) reading a position information where a sample data is present, the sample data being same as a portion of digital content and not encrypted; and (b) reproducing the sample data based on the read position information without a key information, the key information required for decrypting an encrypted digital content.

Claims

1. An operating method of a reproducing device for reproducing digital content, comprising:

(a) reading by the reproducing device a position information describing where a plurality of sample data are present in digital data, the digital data including a plurality of encrypted digital contents and the plurality of sample data, the plurality of sample data corresponding respectively to the plurality of digital contents, each sample data being same as a portion of the corresponding digital content and being non-encrypted; and

(b) reproducing by the reproducing device at least one sample data based on the read position information without using a key information, the key information required for decrypting the corresponding encrypted digital content,

wherein the position information indicates one of a start position and an end position where each of the sample data is present in the digital data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the position information indicates a duration of each sample data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of sample data is located in front of the corresponding digital content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein each digital content comprises digital audio and/or video.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital data further comprises management information to manage the encrypted digital contents.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of sample data and the corresponding plurality of encrypted digital contents are alternatingly recorded on a recording medium.

7. An apparatus for reproducing digital content, comprising:

a memory to store digital data, the digital data including a plurality of encrypted digital contents and a plurality of sample data, the plurality of sample data corresponding respectively to the plurality of digital contents, each sample data being same as a portion of the corresponding digital content and being non-encrypted; and

a controller to read a position information describing where the plurality of sample data are present, and controlling a reproduction of the sample data based on the read position information without using a key information, the key information required for decrypting the corresponding encrypted digital content,

wherein the position information indicates one of a start position and an end position where each of the sample data is present in the digital data.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the memory further stores the position information.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein each of the plurality of sample data is located in front of the corresponding digital content.

10. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the plurality of sample data and the corresponding plurality of encrypted digital contents are alternatingly recorded on a recording medium.

11. A reproducing device-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a data structure for managing a reproduction of the storage medium via a reproducing device, wherein the data structure comprises a plurality of encrypted digital contents, a plurality of sample data corresponding respectively to the plurality of digital contents, and a position information describing where the plurality of sample data are present, each sample data being same as a portion of the corresponding digital content and being non-encrypted,

wherein the position information indicates one of a start position and an end position where each of the sample data is present in the digital data, and

at least one of the plurality of the sample data is reproducible via the reproducing device without using a key information required for decrypting the plurality of the encrypted digital contents.

12. The storage medium of claim 11, wherein the position information indicates a duration of each sample data.

13. The storage medium of claim 11, wherein each digital content comprises digital audio and/or video.

14. The storage medium of claim 11, wherein the data structure further comprises a management information to manage the encrypted digital contents.

15. The storage medium of claim 11, wherein each of the plurality of sample data is located in front of the corresponding digital content.

16. The storage medium of claim 11, wherein the plurality of sample data and the corresponding plurality of encrypted digital contents are alternatingly recorded on the storage medium.