Information processing device, content processing system, and computer readable medium having content processing program

• US 8,924,738 B2
• Filed: 03/09/2010
• Issued: 12/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Nimura, Kazuaki, Nakamura, Yousuke, Honda, Fumio, Yamada, Isamu
• Primary Examiner(s): Zand, Kambiz
• Assistant Examiner(s): ZHAO, DON GORDON
• Application Number:
  US12/720,286
• Publication Number:
  US 20100232607A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,757 Days
• Field of Search: 380/30, 380/228, 380/283, 380/28, 380277-279, 713/160, 713180-194, 713/153, 713/168
• US Class Current: 713/189
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2143 Clearing memory, e.g. to prevent the data from being stolen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2005/91364 the video signal being scrambled
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4335 Housekeeping operations, e.g. prioritizing content for deletion because of storage space restrictions storage management, e.g. defragmentation G06F3/0604; unloading stored programs G06F9/445; storage management in file systems G06F16/10; buffering arrangements in a network node or in an end terminal in packet networks H04L49/90
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4623 Processing of entitlement messages, e.g. ECM [Entitlement Control Message] or EMM [Entitlement Management Message] arrangements for conditional access to broadcast information or to broadcast-related services H04H60/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• 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 5/913 for scrambling ; for copy protection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

An information processing device and method include storing encrypted content, storing a key for decrypting the encrypted content stored, decrypting the encrypted content stored using the key, storing a deletion table storing information indicating whether or not the key stored is to be deleted when a transition from an operating state to one of other states is made, the information corresponding to the other states, and checking the information in the deletion table corresponding to the one of the other states and deleting the key when the information indicates that the key is to be deleted.

Claims

1. An information processing device, comprising:

a content storage configured to store encrypted content;

a key storage configured to store a key configured to decrypt the encrypted content stored in the content storage unit;

a table storage configured to store a deletion table having information indicating whether the key stored in the key storage is to be deleted or to be maintained when a transition from an operating state of the information processing device to one of other states is made, where the information corresponds with the other states; and

a processor configured to;

decrypt the encrypted content stored in the content storage using the key stored in the key storage;

check, when the transition from the operating state to one of the other states is made, the information in the deletion table,

delete, during the transition, the key when the information in the deletion table indicates that the key is to be deleted, and maintain the key when the information indicates that the key is to be maintained; and

acquire the key when the key is not stored in the key storage when the transition from the one of the other states to the operating state is made, and

wherein power consumption of the information processing device in the one of other states is less than power consumption of the information processing device in the operating state.

2. The information processing device of claim 1, comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with a key storage management device which stores and manages the key,

wherein the key is acquired by causing the communication unit to request the key storage management device to transmit the key and receive the key transmitted from the key storage management device.

3. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein a presence or an absence of the key is determined by searching in the key storage.

4. The information processing device of claim 3, comprising:

checking the information in the deletion table corresponding to a state from which the transition to the operating state is made and recognizing the absence of the key when the information corresponding to the state indicates that the key is to be deleted.

5. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein

the deleting references a deletion key table during transition between states, and

the deletion key table identifies a destination state and the deleting is implemented when the device transitions to the destination state identified in the deletion key table.

6. A content processing system in which content processing devices configured to decrypt encrypted content using keys and a key storage management device configured to store and manage the keys are connected to each other via a communication network, comprising:

each of the content processing devices including;

a content storage configured to store encrypted content;

a first key storage configured to store a key for decrypting the encrypted content stored in the content storage;

a first table storage configured to store a deletion table having information indicating whether the key stored in the first key storage is to be deleted or to be maintained when a transition from an operating state of a corresponding of content processing devices to one of other states is made, the information corresponding with the other states; and

a processor configured to;

decrypt the encrypted content stored in the content storage using the key stored in the first key storage and process the decrypted content;

check, when the transition from the operating state to one of the other states is made, the information in the deletion table,

delete, during the transition, the key when the information in the deletion table indicates that the key is to be deleted, and maintain the key when the information indicates that the key is to be maintained;

communicate with the key storage management device; and

acquire the key when the key is not stored in the first key storage when a transition from the one of the other states to the operating state is made, by requesting the key storage management device to transmit the key and receive the key transmitted from the key storage management device,

the key storage management device comprising;

a second communication configured to communicate with the content processing devices;

a second key storage configured to store a key for decrypting the encrypted content; and

a processor that executes a key management process to, when a key transmission request is received by the second communication, cause the second communication to transmit the key to a content processing device from which the key transmission request has been received, and

wherein power consumption of the corresponding of content processing devices in the one of other states is less than power consumption of said one of the corresponding of content processing devices in the operating state.

7. The content processing system of claim 6, wherein the key storage management device includes a second table storage unit configured to store a key transmission table storing information regarding key transmission permission to the content processing devices, the key transmission permission information corresponding to the content processing devices and

wherein when a key transmission request is received by the second communication, the key management checks the information in the key transmission table corresponding to a content processing device from which the transmission request has been received and, when key transmission to the content processing device is permitted, causes the second communication to transmit the key.

8. A non-transitory storage medium storing a content processing program executed in a computer capable of executing programs to cause the computer to operate as a content processing device including:

storing encrypted content;

storing a key for decrypting the encrypted content stored;

decrypting the encrypted content stored using the key;

storing a deletion table having information indicating whether the key stored is to be deleted or to be maintained when a transition from an operating state of the content processing device to one of other states is made, the information corresponding to the other states;

checking, when the transition from the operating state to one of the other states is made, the information in the deletion table,

deleting the key, during the transition, when the information in the deletion table indicates that the key is to be deleted, and maintain the key when the information indicates that the key is to be maintained; and

acquiring the key when the key is not stored when a transition from the one of the other states to the operating state is made, and

wherein power consumption of the content processing device in the one of other states is less than power consumption of the content processing device in the operating state.

9. The non-transitory storage medium storing the content processing program of claim 8,

wherein the computer has a communication unit configured to communicate with a key storage management device which stores and manages the key, and

wherein the key is acquired when determining that the key is not stored when the transition from the one of the other states to the operating state is made, by causing the communication unit to request the key storage management device to transmit the key and receive the key transmitted from the key storage management device.

10. The non-transitory storage medium storing the content processing program of claim 8, comprising:

determining a presence or an absence of the key by searching in a key storage unit.

11. The non-transitory storage medium storing the content processing program of claim 8, comprising:

checking the information in the deletion table corresponding to a state from which the transition to the operating state is made and recognizing the absence of the key when the information corresponding to the state indicates that the key is to be deleted.

12. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

determining, using a processor, a transition from an operating state of a device to other one of states of the device; and

deleting, during transition to a destination state of the device among the other one of states, a key configured to decrypt content in association with the device when said determining indicates the transition is made to the destination state, where the deleting of the key is implemented when determining information stored corresponding to the destination state indicates that the key is to be deleted, and the key is maintained when the information indicates that the key is to be maintained, and

wherein power consumption of the device in the other one of states is less than power consumption of the device in the operating state.