Patent ID: 8977783
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A kiosk for transferring content to a secure digital (SD) card, the kiosk comprising: a customer interface module for receiving a customer's selection of a plurality of media files to transfer to the SD card; a media file request module for requesting the plurality of media files and corresponding metadata file for each media file from a server communicatively coupled to the kiosk; a server interaction module for receiving the requested plurality of media files and the corresponding metadata files from the server; a transaction module for accepting payment from a customer for the customer's selection of the plurality of media files to transfer to the SD card; an SD card writer for writing data to an unsecure user area of the SD card and a protected secure area of the SD card; and a media file processing module for preparing the plurality of media files and the corresponding metadata files to be written to the SD card in cooperation with the SD card writer, wherein space is pre-allocated on the SD card for writing an encrypted playable content portion of each media file to an unsecure area of the SD card, and wherein, except for a user key, data to be written to the unsecure area of the SD card is queued for writing in advance of data to be written to a secure area of the SD card, such that the data to be written to the unsecure area is written in time before the data to be written to the secure area is written, and wherein the playable media files are encrypted by a content key that is encrypted by the user key.