Patent ID: 8082212
Filing Date: 2011-12-20
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. An electronic musical apparatus for transferring encrypted music contents from among plurality types of music content recording media, the electronic musical apparatus comprising: a storage device for storing a secret key and a plurality of media IDs each unique to one of the plurality types of music content recording media; a temporary memory device; a memory device; and a processor coupled to the memory device, wherein the memory device stores executable instructions that when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform the operations of: reading the encrypted music contents from one of the plurality types of music content recording media; determining a type of the one of the plurality types of music content recording media; retrieving the medium ID of the determined type of the one of the plurality types of music content recording media; decrypting the read encrypted music contents using the retrieved medium ID; retrieving common key information, security information, and music piece information from the decrypted music contents and storing the common key information, the security information, and the music piece information in the temporary memory device, wherein the common key information includes a common key, wherein the security information includes copyright information and a content ID; determining a type of one medium of the music content recording media from which the encrypted music contents is designated to be transferred to; retrieving the medium ID of the determined type of the one medium of the music content recording media to be transferred to and the secret key from the storage device; retrieving the content ID from the retrieved security information; encrypting the retrieved music piece information using the retrieved content ID; retrieving the common key from the retrieved common key information; generating a first key using the retrieved common key and the retrieved medium ID of the determined type of the one medium of the music content recording media to be transferred to; encrypting the retrieved security information with the first key; encrypting the retrieved common key information with the retrieved secret key; and writing the encrypted security information, the common key information, and the music piece information to the determined type of the one medium of the music content recording media to be transferred to.