Patent ID: 7284131
Filing Date: 2007-10-16
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of enabling a site server and a customer to share at least one of a contents encryption and a contents decryption key, the method comprising: the site server receiving personal information of the customer, wherein said received personal information is sent by the customer using a customer computer; generating, at the site server, a unique encryption key corresponding to the received personal information of the customer and encrypting contents using the unique encryption key; transmitting, from the site server, the generated unique encryption key, a computer-dedicated player, which plays deciphered downloaded encrypted content and encrypted contents, to the customer computer; storing, at the site server, the personal information of the customer and the unique encryption key; and generating, at the site server, a customer database using the stored personal information and the unique encryption key, wherein the downloaded content is deciphered based on the generated unique encryption key and reproduced by the computer-dedicated player.