Method for copy protecting a record carrier, copy protected record carrier and means for detecting access control information
First Claim
1. A transmitting device, comprising:
- means for receiving main information;
processing means for error encoding the main information into error words using error correcting rules, and cross interleaving the error words, and representing auxiliary information as a pattern including error words containing uncorrectable errors that are not correctable using the error correcting rules; and
means for transmitting cross interleaved information containing the uncorrectable errors representing the auxiliary information, the means for transmitting including means for writing the cross interleaved information containing the uncorrectable errors onto an optical record carrier, the pattern also including error words that are correct or correctable using the error correcting rules, the auxiliary information being capable of affecting the control of the operation of a record carrier reading device.
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Abstract
A method for copy protecting a record carrier is disclosed, in which method the copy protected record carriers are provided with a pattern of logical errors which cannot be corrected by the error correcting rules predefined for said record carrier. The pattern of logical errors represents access control information. The logical errors are generated during decoding the bit sequence read from the record carrier. Bit errors may be positioned in the bit sequence so as to counteract de-interleaving which is part of an error decoding process in a reading device and accumulate in error words which are uncorrectable. Also a method for detecting access control information and a retrieval arrangement are disclosed, which retrieval arrangement serves to detect the access control information by selecting at least one error location, but not all error locations on the record carrier, and verifying the presence of an error by reading the selected error location via the reading means.
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8 Claims
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1. A transmitting device, comprising:
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means for receiving main information; processing means for error encoding the main information into error words using error correcting rules, and cross interleaving the error words, and representing auxiliary information as a pattern including error words containing uncorrectable errors that are not correctable using the error correcting rules; and means for transmitting cross interleaved information containing the uncorrectable errors representing the auxiliary information, the means for transmitting including means for writing the cross interleaved information containing the uncorrectable errors onto an optical record carrier, the pattern also including error words that are correct or correctable using the error correcting rules, the auxiliary information being capable of affecting the control of the operation of a record carrier reading device.
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2. A transmitting device, comprising:
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means for receiving main information; processing means for error encoding the main information into error words using error correcting rules, and cross interleaving the error words, and representing auxiliary information as a pattern including error words containing uncorrectable errors that are not correctable using the error correcting rules; and means for transmitting cross interleaved information containing the uncorrectable errors representing the auxiliary information, wherein transmitted cross interleaved information includes an indication of the presence of the auxiliary information, wherein the processing means encrypts the main information depending on the auxiliary information, wherein the transmitted cross interleaved information includes padding in addition to the main information, and wherein the uncorrectable errors representing the auxiliary information are contained in the padding.
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3. A non-transitory record carrier comprising:
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main information recorded on the non-transitory record carrier that is error encoded into error words based on error correction rules, the error words being cross interleaved in the non-transitory record carrier, and auxiliary information recorded on the non-transitory record carrier represented by a pattern including error words containing errors that are uncorrectable using the error correcting rules, the auxiliary information being capable of affecting the control of the operation of a computing device. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5)
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6. A receiving device, comprising:
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means for receiving information, the received information including main information and auxiliary information; processing means for deinterleaving the received information to produce error words, and error decoding the error words using predetermined error correction rules to retrieve the main information and the auxiliary information, the auxiliary information being represented as a pattern including error words which have errors that are uncorrectable using the predetermined error correction rules, the auxiliary information being capable of affecting the control of the operation of a computing device; and
means for transmitting the main information. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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