Secure streaming container

• US 8,800,019 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2013
• Issued: 08/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Digital Reg of Texas, LLC (DRM Technologies LLC)
• Original Assignee: Digital Reg of Texas, LLC (DRM Technologies LLC)
• Inventors: Ornstein, Seth, Venters, III, Carl Vernon, PHILLIPS, II, Eugene B.
• Primary Examiner(s): REVAK, CHRISTOPHER A
• Application Number:
  US14/031,741
• Publication Number:
  US 20140025953A1
• Time in Patent Office: 320 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 726/9
• 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 21/6209 to a single file or object, e.g. in a secure envelope, encrypted and accessed using a key, or with access control rules appended to the object itself
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2143 Clearing memory, e.g. to prevent the data from being stolen
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/70 Media network packetisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0866 involving user or device identifiers, e.g. serial number, physical or biometrical information, DNA, hand-signature or measurable physical characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0891 Revocation or update of secret information, e.g. encryption key update or rekeying

Abstract

A system and method for securely streaming encrypted digital media content out of a digital container to a user'"'"'s media player. This streaming occurs after the digital container has been delivered to the user'"'"'s machine and after the user has been authorized to access the encrypted content. The user'"'"'s operating system and media player treat the data stream as if it were a being delivered over the Internet (or other network) from a streaming web server. However, no Internet connection is required after the container has been delivered to the user and the data stream suffers no quality loss due to network traffic or web server access problems. In this process of the invention, the encrypted content files are decrypted and fed to the user'"'"'s media player in real time and are never written to the user'"'"'s hard drive or storage device. This process makes unauthorized copying of the digital content contained in the digital container virtually impossible.

Claims

1. A method of providing electronic data, the method comprising the steps of:

providing by a computing device a secure streaming container (SSC) to a second device, the SSC having at least streaming media content, a container identification and an associated original key;

receiving data unique to the second device at the computing device;

processing the received data and the container identification to produce a permission token; and

initiating sending of the permission token to the second device,

wherein the SSC includes content that is configured to rekey the original key using the permission token and configured to rekey the streaming media content so that decryption of the streaming media content is locked to the second device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising playing the portions of the streaming media content while other portions remain secured in the SSC at either the computing device or the second device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the SSC includes digital rights management (DRM) which controls access to the SSC.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second device comprises at least one of a cell phone, a personal data assistant (PDA), a personal computer, a computing device, a portable music player, a tablet computer, a cable modem, a cable television tuner, and a satellite receiver.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein at least some of the contents of the SSC is configured to execute within the environment of the second device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving transaction information from the second device wherein transaction information comprises supplying at least one of a financial information, a personal data, and a demographic data.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the financial information is credit card information.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the personal data is at least one of a biometric data, a personal identification, and a password.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the streaming media content is encoded as hyper-text markup language (HTML).

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of supplying a password for a subsequent SSC access.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a permission to access the SSC.

12. A computer program product for providing electronic data comprising a non-transitory computer storage media having computer program code embodied thereon, the computer program code being configured that when read and executed by a processor causes the following steps to be performed:

providing by a computing device a secure streaming container (SSC) to a second device, the SSC having at least streaming media content, a container identification and an associated original key;

receiving data unique to the second device at the computing device;

processing the received data and the container identification to produce a permission token; and

initiating sending of the permission token to the second device,

wherein the SSC includes content that is configured to rekey the original key using the permission token and configured to rekey the streaming media content so that decryption of the streaming media content is locked to the second device.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the computer program code is further configured to cause execution of the step of receiving transaction information from the second device wherein transaction information comprises supplying at least one of a financial information, a personal data, and a demographic data.