Device for and a Method of Processing an Encrypted Data Stream

• US 20080170687A1
• Filed: 04/25/2006
• Published: 07/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Moors, Eric, Manders, Roland, Rijckaert, Albert
• Application Number:
  US11/912,323
• Publication Number:
  US 20080170687A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 380/200
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26606 for generating or managing entitlement messages, e.g. Entitlement Control Message [ECM] or Entitlement Management Message [EMM] arrangements for conditional access to broadcast information or to broadcast-related services H04H60/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440281 by altering the temporal resolution, e.g. by frame skipping television signal recording using magnetic recording on tape for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate H04N5/783
• 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 21/63345 by transmitting keys key distribution for secret or secure communication H04L9/08; network support of key management H04L63/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/165 Centralised control of user terminal subsequent to an upstream request signal H04N7/17345; Registering at central by two-way working H04N7/17309

Abstract

A device (3000) for processing an encrypted data stream (3001), wherein decryption messages are provided for decrypting each segment (1403) of the encrypted data stream (3001), wherein each decryption message comprises a number of decryption elements, wherein the device (3000) comprises a detection unit (3002) for detecting the number of decryption elements per decryption message, and a determining unit (3003) for determining a position for providing the decryption messages in relation to the sequence of the segments (1403), based on the detected number.

Claims

1-38. -38. (canceled)

39. A device (3000) for processing an encrypted data stream (3001), wherein decryption messages are provided for decrypting each segment (1403) of the encrypted data stream (3001),

wherein each decryption message comprises a number of decryption elements,

wherein the device (3000) comprises

a determining unit (3003) for determining a position for providing the decryption messages in relation to the sequence of the segments (1403),

characterized in that the device further comprises

a detection unit (3002) for detecting the number of decryption elements per decryption message, the number of decryption messages being indicative of the position to be determined;

wherein the determining unit (3003) further determines the position for providing the decryption messages in relation to the sequence of the segments (1403), based on the detected number of decryption elements per decryption message.

40. The device (3000) according to claim 39,

wherein the decryption messages are Entitlement Control Messages and the decryption elements are Control Words.

41. The device (3000) according to claim 39,

wherein a decryption message corresponding to a particular segment (1403) is provided in advance of the particular segment (1403).

42. The device (3000) according to claim 39, wherein

the encrypted data stream is of a first type of encrypted data stream (1400) or the encrypted data stream is of a second type of encrypted data stream (1401);

the first type of encrypted data stream comprising a first number of decryption elements per decryption message which is equal to the number of decryption messages; and

the second type of encrypted data stream comprising a second number of decryption elements per decryption message which is not equal to the number of decryption messages;

the detection unit is further arranged to detect the first number of decryption elements per decryption message for the first type of encrypted data stream or to detect the second number of decryption elements per decryption message for the second type of encrypted data stream; and

the determining unit (3003) is further arranged to determine the position for providing the decryption messages in relation to the sequence of the segments (1403), based on the first number of decryption elements per decryption message for the first type of encrypted data stream or based on the second number of decryption elements per decryption message for the second type of encrypted data stream.

43. The device (3000) according to claim 39,

wherein the determining unit (3003) is adapted to, in case that the detected number of decryption elements per decryption message is two, provide the decryption message directly preceding the corresponding segment (1403).

44. The device (3000) according to claim 39,

wherein the determining unit (3003) is adapted to, in case that the detected number of decryption elements per decryption message is one, provide the decryption message one segment (1403) in advance.

45. The device (3000) according to claim 39,

comprising a storage unit adapted to store the decryption messages in a separate file.

46. The device (3000) according to claim 45,

wherein the file is indicative of the assignment of each of the decryption messages to the corresponding segments (1403).

47. The device (3000) according to claim 43,

comprising two registers (1501, 1502) for storing the two decryption elements assigned to a decryption message, wherein, at a time, only one of the two registers is capable of overwriting data stored therein.

48. The device (3000) according to claim 44,

comprising two registers (1501, 1502) for storing decryption elements, wherein, at a time, only one of the two registers is capable of overwriting data stored therein.

49. The device (3000) according to claim 39,

comprising a control unit adapted to remove originally provided decryption messages from the encrypted data stream (3001).

50. The device (3000) according to claim 39,

adapted to process an encrypted data stream (3001) of video data or audio data.

51. The device (3000) according to claim 39,

adapted to process an encrypted data stream (3001) of digital data.

52. The device (3000) according to claim 39,

comprising a reproduction unit (3005) for reproducing the decrypted data stream.

53. The device (3000) according to claim 39,

comprising a generation unit (3004) for processing the data stream for reproduction in a trick-play reproduction mode.

54. The device (3000) according to claim 53,

wherein the trick-play reproduction mode is one of the group consisting of a fast forward reproduction mode, a fast reverse reproduction mode, a slow motion reproduction mode, a freeze frame reproduction mode, an instant replay reproduction mode, and a reverse reproduction mode.

55. The device (3000) according to claim 39,

adapted to process an encrypted MPEG2 data stream (3001).

56. The device (3000) according to claim 39,

realized as at least one of the group consisting of a digital video recording device and a network-enabled device and a conditional access system and a portable audio player and a portable video player and a mobile phone and a DVD player and a CD player a harddisk-based media player and an internet radio device and a public entertainment device and an MP3 player.

57. A method of processing an encrypted data stream (3001), wherein decryption messages are provided for decrypting each segment (1403) of the encrypted data stream (3001), wherein each decryption message comprises a number of decryption elements,

wherein the method comprises the steps of

determining a position for providing the decryption messages in relation to the sequence of the segments (1403)

characterized in that the method further comprises

detecting the number of decryption elements per decryption message, the number of decryption messages being indicative of the position to be determined;

and

wherein the step of determining further determines the position for providing the decryption messages in relation to the sequence of the segments (1403), based on the detected number of decryption elements per decryption message.

58. A computer-readable medium, in which a computer program of processing an encrypted data stream (3001), wherein decryption messages are provided for decrypting each segment (1403) of the encrypted data stream (3001), wherein each decryption message comprises a number of decryption elements, is stored, which computer program, when being executed by a processor, is adapted to control or carry out the following method steps:

determining a position for providing the decryption messages in relation to the sequence of the segments (1403)

characterized in that the method further comprises

detecting the number of decryption elements per decryption message, the number of decryption messages being indicative of the position to be determined; and

wherein the step of determining further determines the position for providing the decryption messages in relation to the sequence of the segments (1403), based on the detected number of decryption elements per decryption message.

59. A program element of processing an encrypted data stream (3001), wherein decryption messages are provided for decrypting each segment (1403) of the encrypted data stream (3001), wherein each decryption message comprises a number of decryption elements, which program element, when being executed by a processor, is adapted to control or carry out the method steps of:

determining a position for providing the decryption messages in relation to the sequence of the segments (1403)

characterized in that the method further comprises

detecting the number of decryption elements per decryption message, the number of decryption messages being indicative of the position to be determined; and

wherein the step of determining further determines the position for providing the decryption messages in relation to the sequence of the segments (1403), based on the detected number of decryption elements per decryption message.