Content access control from an information carrier player
OwnerDeclan Kelly, Yang Penginventors
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method of controlling a user access to a server content from an information carrier player (101), said server being intended to contain data associated with a rating level (RL), said method comprising; a) a parental control access step (104) based on a current parental control level (Current PCL i), b) a control step (107) based on a comparison between said current parental control level (Current PCL i) and the rating level of said data, for selecting authorized data to be displayed on said information carrier player (101).
Claims5
A method of controlling, from an information carrier player (101), a user access to an information carrier (105) and to a server (103), said information carrier (105) being associated with a preset parental control level (DVD_PCL), said information carrier player (101) being associated with a current parental control level (Current_PCL_i), said server (103) being intended to contain data associated with a rating level (RL), said method of controlli02ng comprising:
- a first switching step (104) controlled by a first control signal derived from a first comparison between said current parental control level (Current_PCL_i) and said preset parental control level (DVD_PCL), for authorizing or not the access to said information carrier (105),
- a second switching step (107) controlled by a second control signal (108) derived from a second comparison between said current parental control level (Current_PCL_i) and said rating level (RL), for authorizing or not the access to said data.
An information carrier player (101) intended to read an information carrier (105) which is associated with a preset parental control level (DVD_PCL), and to control a user access to a server (103) intended to contain data associated with a rating level (RL), said information carrier player (101) being associated with a current parental control level (Current_PCL_i), and comprising:
- first switching means (104) controlled by a first control signal derived from a first comparison between said current parental control level (Current_PCL_i) and said preset parental control level (DVD_PCL), for authorizing or not the reading of said information carrier (105),
- second switching means (107) controlled by a second control signal (108) derived from a second comparison between said current parental control level (Current_PCL_i) and said rating level (RL), for authorizing or not the access to said data.
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