Method and apparatus for preventing illegal reuse of digital right management content in portable terminal
AssigneeSamsung Electronic Co., Ltd.
InventorsWoo-Gyu LIM, Chang-Gie Lee, Young-Hoon Min, Jae-Min Jung, Seok-Kyu Jang
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for preventing illegal reuse of Digital Right Management (DRM) content in a portable terminal is provided. The method includes performing user authentication when there is an attempt to restore a Right Object (RO) backup file, and identifying information on the RO backup file to be pre-restored in a terminal, and determining if the RO backup file can be restored according to the identified information.
Claims12
A method of preventing illegal reuse of Digital Right Management (DRM) content in a portable terminal, the method comprising:
- performing user authentication when there is an attempt to restore a Right Object (RO) backup file;
- and
- identifying information on the RO backup file to be pre-restored in a terminal;
- and
- determining if the RO backup file can be restored according to the identified information.
An apparatus for preventing unauthorized reuse of Digital Right Management (DRM) content in a portable terminal, the apparatus comprising:
- a user authentication unit for performing user authentication when there is an attempt to restore a Right Object (RO) backup file;
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- a controller for identifying information on the RO backup file to be pre-restored in a terminal, and determining if the RO backup file can be restored according to the identified information.
A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for preventing illegal reuse of Digital Right Management (DRM) content in a portable terminal, comprising:
- a first code segment, for performing user authentication when there is an attempt to restore a Right Object (RO) backup file;
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- a second code segment, for identifying information on the RO backup file to be pre-restored in a terminal;
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- a third code segment, for determining if the RO backup file can be restored according to the identified information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.