Patent ID: 8306224

Claim:
A device, including a receiver, which flexibly protects an Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) media stream using Moving Picture Experts Group-4 (MPEG-4) Intellectual Property Management and Protection (IPMP) extension on an ISMA contents provider side, wherein a tool list descriptor is buried in an Initial Object Description (IOD) to represent a list of IPMP tools required for processing of the contents, one of tools regulated in the tool list has a tool ID allocated to an ISMA encryption-decryption tool, one of the tools regulated in the tool list has a tool identifier (ID) allocated to a key management system (KMS) tool, and the presence of any one of the two tools notifies the receiver of the presence of ISMA encryption protection, wherein the Tool List descriptor is read by the receiver to the tool ID, if the Tool ID is identified as either ISMA Cryp decryption tool or KMS tool to determine that the ISMA media stream is protected by ISMA Cryp protection, ISMA encryption protection is notified by using a tool list in an IOD, an IPMP descriptor pointer for representing that a media stream is protected is buried in an ES descriptor of the media stream, and an IPMP descriptor referred by the IPMP descriptor pointer has a tool ID of an ISMA encryption-decryption tool.