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- Patent Title: Tracing traitor coalitions and preventing piracy of digital content in a broadcast encryption system
- Patent Title (中): 跟踪叛国者联盟,防止广播加密系统中数字内容的盗版
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Application No.: US11323247Application Date: 2005-12-30
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Publication No.: US08176568B2Publication Date: 2012-05-08
- Inventor: Hongxia Jin , Jeffrey Bruce Lotspiech
- Applicant: Hongxia Jin , Jeffrey Bruce Lotspiech
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Marc D. McSwain; Leonard T. Guzman; Mohammed Kashef
- Main IPC: G06F21/00
- IPC: G06F21/00

Abstract:
A system, method, and computer program product to find coalitions of receivers who collude to produce pirated protected content, then evaluates the confidence that particular members of each identified coalition are traitors versus innocent receivers incriminated by chance. Typically, each file in a group of original files is modified to include variations of critical file segments. The group of files is then broadcast with individualized codes that enable particular authorized receivers to properly process the modified files. The modifications in a pirated version of a file can identify which traitorous receivers contributed to its piracy. Candidate coalitions of differing size are first evaluated to determine if they cover observed file variations with greater than a predetermined likelihood that an innocent coalition is falsely incriminated by chance. Individual members of satisfactory coalitions are then evaluated. Traitors may be cryptographically revoked.
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