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Systeme et procede destines a un serveur mandataire a duree limitee Download PDF

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WO2004056110A1
WO2004056110A1 PCT/IL2002/001009 IL0201009W WO2004056110A1 WO 2004056110 A1 WO2004056110 A1 WO 2004056110A1 IL 0201009 W IL0201009 W IL 0201009W WO 2004056110 A1 WO2004056110 A1 WO 2004056110A1
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Shmuel Motiuk
Jacob Eckert
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Mahi Technologies Ltd
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/41—Structure of client; Structure of client peripherals
    • H04N21/418—External card to be used in combination with the client device, e.g. for conditional access
    • H04N21/4181—External card to be used in combination with the client device, e.g. for conditional access for conditional access
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/21—Server components or server architectures
    • H04N21/214—Specialised server platform, e.g. server located in an airplane, hotel, hospital
    • H04N21/2143—Specialised server platform, e.g. server located in an airplane, hotel, hospital located in a single building, e.g. hotel, hospital or museum
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/25—Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies
    • H04N21/254—Management at additional data server, e.g. shopping server, rights management server
    • H04N21/2543—Billing, e.g. for subscription services
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/47—End-user applications
    • H04N21/472—End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content
    • H04N21/47211—End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content for requesting pay-per-view content
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/60—Network structure or processes for video distribution between server and client or between remote clients; Control signalling between clients, server and network components; Transmission of management data between server and client, e.g. sending from server to client commands for recording incoming content stream; Communication details between server and client 
    • H04N21/61—Network physical structure; Signal processing
    • H04N21/6156—Network physical structure; Signal processing specially adapted to the upstream path of the transmission network
    • H04N21/6187—Network physical structure; Signal processing specially adapted to the upstream path of the transmission network involving transmission via a telephone network, e.g. POTS
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N7/00—Television systems
    • H04N7/16—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems
    • H04N7/162—Authorising the user terminal, e.g. by paying; Registering the use of a subscription channel, e.g. billing
    • H04N7/163—Authorising the user terminal, e.g. by paying; Registering the use of a subscription channel, e.g. billing by receiver means only
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N7/00—Television systems
    • H04N7/16—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems
    • H04N7/173—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal
    • H04N7/17345—Control of the passage of the selected programme
    • H04N7/17363—Control of the passage of the selected programme at or near the user terminal
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N7/00—Television systems
    • H04N7/16—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems
    • H04N7/173—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal
    • H04N2007/1739—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal the upstream communication being transmitted via a separate link, e.g. telephone line

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  • the present invention relates to the field of in-premises information and video networks. More specifically, the present invention relates to an authorization to use these networks and billing this usage.
  • Hotels as an example of in-premises small market, provide free satellite video channels and enable the guests to view special channels for additional payment, so called pay-TV" .
  • Billing, the pay-TV requires a system that identifies the usage of pay-TV and collect the usage information - sometime there are few different kinds of usage e.g., different channels.
  • the known proxy systems and methods are based on decoding and encoding.
  • the present invention provides a simple system and method that are not use any coding, which inter-alia enables sealing time-limited proxy for viewing video channel or group of video channels - by a TV-receiver that located in a premises e.g., hotel rooms.
  • the present invention provides a system for time-limited proxy, employed in premises information networks.
  • This system includes: 15 ⁇ a gate-unit series installed on the subscriber's last-mile of the network, the gate-unit is capable to enable or disable the passage of a specific information or a group of specific information to the 20 subscriber, according to a command;
  • each of the proxy-smart-cards includes: o an IC, contains pre-loaded 2.5 proxy-information; oa time counter that starts counting on the first usage and revoke the proxy-information after a predetermined time; and 30 oa communication capability; and ⁇ a subscriber-unit with communication capability series installed on the network' s connection cable of the subscriber, the subscriber-unit is capable to read the proxy-information from the proxy-smart-card, to identify the validity of the proxy-smart-card and to command the gate-unit .
  • the system for time-limited proxy wherein the communication between the gate-unit and the subscriber-unit is done via the network' s infrastructure .
  • the system for time-limited proxy wherein the operating electrical-power is supplied to the gate-unit by the subscriber-unit via the network infrastructure, during validation time only.
  • the system for time-limited proxy wherein the specific information is a video channel or a group of video channels transferred to a video receiver of the subscriber. According to another preferred embodiment, it is provided the system for time-limited proxy, wherein the revoking of the proxy-information is irreversible.
  • the system for time-limited proxy wherein the proxy- smart-cards are supplied in a disposal packaging, which the opening of the packaging is irreversible.
  • the system for time-limited proxy wherein the subscriber-unit further includes a collecting-unit that connected to a phone line, the collecting-unit collects usage information and capable to be queried and answered via the phone line.
  • a system for time-limited proxy employed in premises video networks.
  • This system includes:
  • the gate-unit installed in the last network's distribution board on the subscriber's connection cable, the gate-unit is capable to enable or disable the passage of a video channel or a group of video channels to a video receiver of the subscriber, according to a command;
  • each of the proxy-smart-cards includes: o an IC, contains pre-loaded proxy- informat ion ; o a time counter that starts counting on the first usage and revoke in a irreversible manner the proxy-information after a predetermined time; and o a communication capability; and
  • the subscriber-unit is capable to read the proxy-information from an inserted proxy-smart-card, to identify the validity of the proxy-smart-card and during validation supplies operating electric power to the gate-unit and command the gate-unit to transfer video channels defined by the proxy-smart-card.
  • a method for supplying and billing a time-limited proxy to use a network includes the following steps:
  • the gate-unit is capable to enable or disable the passage of information, according to a command;
  • each of the proxy-smart-card includes: o an IC, contains pre-loaded proxy- information; o a time counter that starts counting on the first usage and revoke in a irreversible manner the proxy-information after a predetermined time; and o a communication capability; and
  • the subscriber-unit is capable to read the proxy-information from an inserted proxy-smart-card, to identify the validity of the proxy-smart-card and during validation supplies operating electric power to the gate-unit and command the gate-unit to enable information passage; and ⁇ selling or billing based on package opening, a plurality of proxy-smart-card kinds differing by length of limited-time, kind of received information or any other different kinds.
  • the method for supplying and billing a time-limited proxy to use a network can also be use wherein the information is a video channel or a group of video channels.
  • Figure 1 illustrates an embodiment of the present invention. The figure illustrates an installation of the system in premises' rooms.
  • the present invention is a system and a method for time-limited proxy.
  • the preferred embodiment of the present invention is an installation of the system in hotel's rooms.
  • Each hotel room is usually contains a TV receiver that connected to a local video network through a wall-jack, which connected by a coaxial cable to a distribution board that is located outside the room.
  • a limited number of channels are provided on the network free of charge and can be received by each TV-receiver of each room.
  • the billing of these channels, so called ⁇ pay-TV is the main purpose of the present invention.
  • a gate-unit is installed in the distribution board, on the coaxial cable that connected directly to the room and connected via a subscriber-unit to the TV-receiver.
  • the subscriber-unit is transparent to any video signal, but the gate-unit is transparent only to the free TV channels signal and disables the passage of pay-TV channels, unless it get a command to enable the passage.
  • Smart-proxy-cards are provided for sale to the hotel guests or provided in the room packaged in an irreversible opening packaging and the room guest will be charge for any opened package.
  • the smart-proxy-cards are provided in a plurality of kinds, differing by kind of channels, length of the limited-time of any other differences.
  • the smart-proxy-card is insert-able to the subscriber-unit and contains preloaded information to be identified by the subscriber-unit.
  • the first insertion starts a time counter in the card that revokes the preloaded information after a predetermined time and the validation of the card is revoke.
  • the subscriber-unit supplies an electrical power - through the coaxial connection cable - to the gate-unit and commands the gate-unit to enable the passage of the pay-TV video channels, according to the preloaded information of the card.
  • the present invention enables hotels to purchase video channels received via satellite and to offer limited-time viewing of these channels in the rooms as a pay-TV.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the figure illustrates an installation of the system in premises' rooms.
  • the rooms 10a &10b contain TV-receivers 11a & lib that connected to the local video network via cables 12 to subscriber-units 13a &13b, which connected by cables 14 to a distribution board 15 and gate-units 16a & 16b are installed on each connection cable 14.
  • the card In the first room 10a a smart-proxy-card 17a is provided, the card is packaged in an irreversible package 18, if the guest will open the package 18 he will be charge for the card 17a. Since the card 17a did not use, the room's gate-unit 16a disable the passage of pay-TV channels to the TV-receiver 11a of this room 10a.
  • the guest use the card 17b by insert it to the subscriber-unit 13b.
  • the subscriber-unit 13b supplies electrical power via the coaxial cable 14 to operate the room' s gate-unit 16b and command it to enable the passage of the pay-TV channels and this channels are received in the TV-receiver lib of the room 10b.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un système et un procédé destinés à un serveur mandataire à durée limitée. Le système est notamment utilisé dans des réseaux vidéo de locaux et comprend (1) une unité de porte installée dans un tableau de distribution externe d'un câble de connexion d'un abonné et capable d'activer ou de désactiver le passage d'un canal vidéo vers le récepteur vidéo selon une commande, (2) des serveur mandataire-carte à puce jetables emballés dans un emballage jetable et renfermant un circuit intégré comprenant des informations du serveur mandataire pré-chargées, un compteur de temps se mettant en marche lors de la première utilisation et révoquant de manière irréversible les informations du serveur mandataire après une durée prédéterminée et une capacité de communication et (3) une unité d'abonné capable de lire les informations du serveur mandataire à partir de la carte, d'identifier la validité et d'alimenter pendant la validation de l'énergie électrique à l'unité de porte, ainsi que de commander ladite unité aux fins de transfert de canaux vidéo.
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US4012583A (en) * 1975-03-03 1977-03-15 Motorola, Inc. Pay TV control system
FR2573889A1 (fr) * 1984-11-27 1986-05-30 Sonelec Systeme de traitement des informations en provenance des chambres d'un ensemble hotelier ou similaire et de controle de ces chambres
WO1991001534A2 (fr) * 1989-07-10 1991-02-07 Alistair Macdonald Henderson Appareil et cle pour acces controle
NL9001931A (nl) * 1990-09-03 1992-04-01 Philips Nv Stelsel voor distributie van betaaltelevisie.
WO2000057636A1 (fr) * 1999-03-24 2000-09-28 Microsoft Corporation Utilisation amelioree des cartes a puce pour associer le contenu d'un support a des menages

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US4012583A (en) * 1975-03-03 1977-03-15 Motorola, Inc. Pay TV control system
FR2573889A1 (fr) * 1984-11-27 1986-05-30 Sonelec Systeme de traitement des informations en provenance des chambres d'un ensemble hotelier ou similaire et de controle de ces chambres
WO1991001534A2 (fr) * 1989-07-10 1991-02-07 Alistair Macdonald Henderson Appareil et cle pour acces controle
NL9001931A (nl) * 1990-09-03 1992-04-01 Philips Nv Stelsel voor distributie van betaaltelevisie.
WO2000057636A1 (fr) * 1999-03-24 2000-09-28 Microsoft Corporation Utilisation amelioree des cartes a puce pour associer le contenu d'un support a des menages

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