Patent ID: 8060938
Filing Date: 2011-11-15
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A proprietary portable audio player system for protecting digital content copyrights, comprising: a proprietary portable audio player, which has a hardware unique device identity and a playback token acquirement mode, plays a music file with a compression format and uses a first transmission medium to link an online music server to thereby obtain a playback token for playback of the music file; a web access interface, which provides the proprietary portable audio player (PPAP) to access the online music server, wherein the PPAP uses the web access interface to notice the online music server for accessing a designated playback token or music file through the first transmission medium when the designated playback token or music file is selected; and an online music server, which has said playback token acquirement mode and pre-stores a plurality of music files with compression formats, a plurality of playback tokens corresponding to music files with the compression format and a mapping table; and a copyright protection mechanism, which protects copyright of music file by limiting and managing playback authority, and only when both the song identity field and the device identity field are matching, the music file can be played; wherein each said playback token has a song identity field and a device identity field, and when a playback token signal from the web access interface is received, the online music server accordingly issues the playback token of the music file, updates the mapping table and sends the playback token to the PPAP through the first transmission medium; wherein the online music server further has a trade-related music file share mode, and the online music server on the trade-related music file share mode updates the mapping table in accordance with an information of a seller and buyer corresponding to a release playback token signal received from the web access interface and sends a playback token to a PPAP of the buyer such that the PPAP of the buyer is able to play a music file received from the seller; and wherein the online music server on the trade-related music file share mode permanently disables the playback token corresponding to the music file, which is sold to the buyer, in a PPAP of the seller such that the PPAP of the seller is not able to play the music file sold.