Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Key management for content protection
- Patent Title (中): 内容保护的关键管理
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Application No.: US12072894Application Date: 2008-02-28
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Publication No.: US08054978B2Publication Date: 2011-11-08
- Inventor: Yevgeny Yakov (Gene) Itkis
- Applicant: Yevgeny Yakov (Gene) Itkis
- Applicant Address: GB Middlesex
- Assignee: NDS Limited
- Current Assignee: NDS Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Middlesex
- Agency: Ladas & Parry LLP
- Priority: IL130963 19990715
- Main IPC: H04L9/08
- IPC: H04L9/08 ; H04L9/00 ; G08B29/00 ; G06F12/14

Abstract:
A method for content access control operative to enable authorized devices to access protected content and to prevent unauthorized devices from accessing protected content, the method comprising: providing a plurality of authorized devices; dividing the plurality of authorized devices into a plurality of groups, each of the plurality of authorized devices being comprised in at least one of the plurality of groups, no two devices of the plurality of authorized devices being comprised in exactly the same groups; determining whether at least one device of the plurality of authorized devices is to be prevented from having access to the protected content and, if at least one device is to be prevented, removing all groups comprising the at least one device from the plurality of groups, thus producing a set of remaining groups; and determining an authorized set comprising groups from the set of remaining groups, such that each device of the plurality of authorized devices which was not determined, in the determining whether step, to be prevented from having access is comprised in at least one group of the authorized set.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080222695A1 Key management for content protection Public/Granted day:2008-09-11
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