Distributing live performances

• US 7,693,978 B2
• Filed: 07/19/2005
• Issued: 04/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: EB Technologies, LLC
• Original Assignee: EB Technologies, LLC
• Inventors: Eliason, Brett, Windell, Erik
• Primary Examiner(s): Augustin; Evens J
• Application Number:
  US11/185,630
• Publication Number:
  US 20070022055A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,722 Days
• Field of Search: 705/1, 709/231, 709/223, 709/203, 725/80, 725/110, 725/86, 714/18
• US Class Current: 709/223
• 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 2221/2117 User registration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2129 Authenticate client device independently of the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0083 using wireless transmission, e.g. radio, light, infrared
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/026 File encryption of specific electrophonic music instrument file or stream formats, e.g. MIDI, note oriented formats, sound banks, wavetables digital rights management [DRM] G06F21/00; encryption H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/191 CRC, i.e. error detection using a cyclic redundancy check

Abstract

An audio codec uses one or more access points to broadcast or unicast a performance to a mobile digital media device that is registered and therefore is authorized to receive the performance. Prior to receiving, the mobile digital media device is authenticated by replying to an RFID query from one or more access points. If the mobile digital media device is registered, a secure key is sent to the mobile digital media device. The mobile digital media device uses the secure key to decrypt music being broadcasted or unicasted to receive the distribution of the live performances in the music venue.

Claims

1. A live music distribution system, comprising:

a mobile digital media device which includes an RFID component which emits an RFID serial number and receives networking security settings, the mobile digital media device further including a wireless networking component which communicates over a wireless local area network;

A mixing board processing sounds collected from a venue where live performances are being carried out;

a music codec stored on a computer-readable medium, which computer-executable instructions being actable for transforming the sounds into a media format that is acceptable to the mobile digital media device;

A database storing a registration of the mobile digital media device, the registration allowing the mobile device to receive the distribution of live performances at a venue where live performances are being carried out;

At least a hardware component distributing live performances to the mobile digital media device over the wireless local area network when the presence of the mobile digital media device is detected by the emitted RFID serial number and the mobile digital media device is registered to receive the distribution of live performances at a venue where live performances are being carried out.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein live performances include music or a lecture.

3. A system for digitally distributing live performances, comprising:

means for storing live performances, emitting an RFID serial number and communicating over a wireless local area network; and

means for distributing live performances to the means for storing live performances at a venue where live performances are being carried out over the wireless local area network when the presence of the means for storing live performances is detected by the emitted RFID serial number and the means for storing live performances is registered to receive the distribution of live performances at the venue where live performances are being carried out.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein live performances include music or a lecture.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the means for distributing live performances includes a means for processing sounds collected from the venue for optimizing the reproduction of sounds.

6. The system of claim 3, wherein the means for distributing live performances includes means for transforming the sounds into a media format that is acceptable to the mobile digital media device.

7. The system of claim 3, wherein the means for distributing live performances includes means for storing a registration of the mobile digital media device, the registration allowing the mobile digital media device to receive the distribution of live performances at the venue.

8. A method for distributing live performances, comprising:

registering a mobile digital media device before a live performance at a venue, the act of registering including interrogating the mobile digital media device for its radio frequency identification serial number;

detecting the presence of the mobile digital media device at the venue by detecting the emission of the radio frequency identification serial number of the mobile digital media device; and

distributing the live performance to the mobile digital media device via a wireless local area network at the venue, if the radio frequency identification serial number of the mobile digital media device matches and is registered by the act of registering.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the act of registering includes interrogating the mobile digital media device to determine a public key of the mobile digital media device for encryption.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the act of registering includes inputting a wired equivalent privacy key for decryption of the distribution of the live performance.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the act of detecting includes encrypting a wired equivalent privacy key with a public key of the mobile digital media device and sending the encrypted wired equivalent privacy key to the mobile digital media device for decryption.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the act of distributing includes distributing over a Web site when the mobile digital media device fails to receive the distribution of the live performance over the wireless local area network at the venue.

13. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon for implementing a method for distributing live performances, comprising:

prior to receiving a media distribution, replying to an RFID query from one or more RFID transponders at a venue by an RFID chip on a mobile digital media device; and

sending a secure key via the RFID chip to the mobile digital media device to decrypt the media distribution sent over a wireless local area network to obtain the distribution of live performances at the venue where live performances are being carried out.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 13, further comprising waking the mobile digital media device for responding to the RFID query from the one or more RFID transponders if the mobile digital media device is not powered up.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein sending a secure key includes sending a service set identifier to the mobile digital device so as to set security settings for communication.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein replying includes validating a unique identifier connected with the mobile digital media device.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising identifying the mobile digital media device by a serial number stored on the mobile digital media device.