IP Library Granted Patent US 7,801,305
Granted Patent B2
US 7,801,305 · App. 10/544,515 · Granted Sep 21, 2010

Secure device for the broadcasting, recording and viewing on demand of audiovisual works in a format of the MPEG-2 TS type

Assignee: Nagra France
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Patent No.
US 7,801,305
App. No.
10/544,515
Granted
Sep 21, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

A process for distributing audiovisual sequences in accordance with a nominal stream format respecting a MPEG-2 TS norm including a succession of TS packets, including analyzing the stream made prior to transmitting to client equipment to generate a first stream in conformity with the MPEG-2 TS format, modifying all or part of the TS packets by substituting packets of the same structure, but whose content was modified, and generating a second stream of a format including digital information suitable for permitting reconstruction of the nominal stream, separately transmitting the two streams from a servers to the equipment, and a calculation is made on the equipment of a synthesis of a stream in nominal format as a function of the first stream and the second stream.

Claims (22)

1. A process for distributing audiovisual sequences in accordance with a nominal stream format respecting a MPEG-2 TS norm comprising a succession of TS packets, comprising:

analyzing the stream made prior to transmitting to client equipment to generate a first stream in conformity with the MPEG-2 TS format,

modifying all or part of the TS packets by substituting modified packets of the same structure and size whose content is of primary importance for viewing,

generating a second stream of a format comprising digital information suitable to permit reconstruction of the nominal stream,

separately transmitting the two streams from a server to the client equipment, and

calculating a synthesis of a stream in nominal format as a function of the first stream and the second stream on the client equipment.

2. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the substituted TS packets contain information relative to one or several video streams included in the TS stream.

3. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the substituted TS packets contain information relative to one or several audio streams included in the TS stream.

4. The process according to claim 1 , wherein analyzing the stream comprises a stage for determination of the TS packets to be substituted as a function of their content.

5. The process according to claim 1 , wherein only certain parts of content of the substituted packets are actually modified.

6. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the second stream contains the substituted TS packets stemming from the nominal stream.

7. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the second stream contains data necessary for effecting substitutions of bytes to be applied in the first stream to obtain the nominal stream.

8. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the first stream is modified by modification of values of all or part of indicator fields.

9. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the second stream respects the MPEG-2 TS format.

10. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the first stream has the same size in bytes as the original stream in MPEG-2 TS format.

11. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the first stream and the second stream are transmitted to the equipment via the same communication network.

12. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the second stream in encrypted.

13. The process according to claim 11 , wherein the second stream is multiplexed in the first stream.

14. The process according to claim 12 , wherein the second stream is multiplexed in the first stream.

15. Equipment that fabricates a video stream according to claim 1 , comprising at least one multimedia server containing original video sequences and a device for analyzing the video stream coming from the server for generating the two streams.

16. Equipment that exploits a video stream according to claim 1 , comprising a standard reader of MPEG-2 TS streams, at least one recording interface for storing the content of the first stream and at least one display interface, and means for recomposition of the original stream from the two streams.

17. A system that transmits a video stream according to claim 1 comprising equipment that produces the video stream comprising at least one multimedia server containing original video sequences and a device for analyzing the video stream coming from the server for generating the two streams, at least one piece of equipment for exploiting a video stream comprising a standard reader of MPEG-2 TS streams, at least one recording interface for storing the content of the first stream and at least one display interface, means for recomposition of the original stream from the two streams, and at least one communication network between the production equipment and the piece or pieces of exploitation equipment.

Assignments (4)
MERGER Recorded Feb 26, 2010
From: MEDIALIVE
To: NAGRA FRANCE
Reel/Frame 023985/0842 →
CONFIRMATORY ASSIGNMENT Recorded Dec 31, 2008
From: BREESE, LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF DANIEL LECOMTE (DECEASED), PIERRE; GEORGES, SEBASTIEN
To: MEDIALIVE SA
Reel/Frame 022047/0622 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE SERIAL NUMBER PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 016683 FRAME 0877. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CORRECT SERIAL NUMBER PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL 016683 AND FRAME 0877 SHOULD BE USSN 10/544,515. Recorded Jan 3, 2006
From: LECOMTE, DANIEL; GEORGES, SEBASTIEN
To: MEDIALIVE
Reel/Frame 016962/0151 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 7, 2005
From: LECOMTE, DANIEL; GEORGES, SEBASTIEN
To: MEDIALIVE, A CORPORATION OF FRANCE
Reel/Frame 016739/0185 →
Priority Claims (1)
FR 03 01494 · Feb 7, 2003 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20060210075A1 · Sep 21, 2006