System for publishing content on a portable digital storage medium

• US 7,882,368 B2
• Filed: 06/01/2009
• Issued: 02/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Stikeleather, James A., Alessi, Mark A., Whited, H L Courtland, Hernandez, Jennifer Phelan, Padial, Alberto Gabriel Mendoza
• Primary Examiner(s): Korzuch; William R
• Assistant Examiner(s): DOAN, TRANG T
• Application Number:
  US12/476,065
• Publication Number:
  US 20090232305A1
• Time in Patent Office: 610 Days
• Field of Search: 705/14.37, 713/193, 709/231, 380/282
• US Class Current: 713/193
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0237 at kiosk

Abstract

In a method of publishing creative content to at least one local digital display device, a first unit of the creative content is stored on a first portable digital storage medium in an encrypted format. The digital replication is encrypted with a selected one of a plurality of private encryption keys. The first portable digital storage medium is transferred to the local digital display device. A preselected public key is entered into the local digital display device. The preselected public key corresponds to the selected one of the plurality of private encryption keys. At least a portion of the first unit of the creative content is decrypted by employing the public encryption key using a public key/private key decryption algorithm. The portion of the creative content is displayed on the local digital display device.

Claims

1. A method of publishing creative content to at least one local digital display device, comprising the steps of:

storing a first unit of the creative content on a first portable digital storage medium in an encrypted format, the first unit of the creative content encrypted with a selected one of a plurality of private encryption keys;

encrypting a second unit of creative content using the selected private key and storing the second unit of creative content on the first portable digital storage medium;

transferring the first portable digital storage medium to the local digital display device;

entering a preselected public key into the local digital display device, the preselected public key corresponding to the selected private key;

decrypting at least a portion of the first unit of the creative content by employing the public key using a public key/private key decryption algorithm;

decrypting at least a portion of the second unit of creative content using a second key different from the public key used to decrypt the first unit of creative content; and

displaying at least one of the portion of the first unit of creative content and the second unit of creative content on the local digital display device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second key is a symmetric key.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of printing a public key on an external surface of the portable digital storage medium, wherein the public key corresponds to a private key used to encrypt the first unit of the creative content stored on the portable digital storage medium.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of storing on the portable digital storage medium a plurality of digital replications of the first unit of creative content, wherein each digital replication includes data that is operable under a different operating system.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising the steps of:

(a) after execution of the transferring step, issuing a request for an operating system identification object;

(b) upon receipt of the operating system identification object, causing a digital replication from the portable digital storage medium corresponding to an operating system identified by the operating system identification object to be transferred to the local digital display device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving a user input indicating that a selected portion of the creative content is to be book-marked;

(b) storing a pointer to the selected portion; and

(c) in response to a request to go to a book-marked portion, displaying the selected portion.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of

(a) receiving a user input indicating that a selected range of text data, having a starting address and an ending address, is to be highlighted;

(b) storing a first highlight pointer to the starting address and a second pointer to the ending address; and

(c) when displaying content corresponding to the selected range of text data, displaying the selected range of text data as being highlighted.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of configuring the first portable digital storage medium to run in an autorun mode.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of configuring the first portable digital storage medium to run in a user-initiated run mode.