摘要:
A method for detecting a broadcast commercial in a digital broadcast stream is disclosed. The digital broadcast stream comprises programs, a set of commercials to be displayed during breaks in the programs, and metadata associated with each of the programs and each commercial in the set of commercials. The method comprises: receiving (320) the digital broadcast stream at a user unit (20); and for each commercial in the set of commercials, detecting a commercial (360) by detecting indicia in the metadata received in the digital broadcast stream that indicate at least one of the following: a start point of the commercial; an end point of the commercial; and a presence point in the commercial.
摘要:
A method for displaying advertisements at a user unit (20) is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, at the user unit (20), at least one advertisement for an item, said at least one advertisement associated with: at least one alternative advertisement for a different item or for said item offered by a different vendor; and a replacement indication indicating whether a user of said user unit (20) is allowed to replace displaying of said at least one advertisement by displaying of said at least one alternative advertisement; and if the replacement indication indicates that the user is allowed to replace displaying of said at least one advertisement by displaying of said at least one alternative advertisement, replace displaying of said at least one advertisement by displaying said at least one alternative advertisement in accordance with a selection of the user.
摘要:
A personal advertisement method for enabling a subscriber user of a broadcast system (10), comprising a headend (15) to transmit an advertisement message to a targeted audience, is disclosed. The method comprise the subscriber user of the broadcast system (10) performing the following: creating an advertisement message; associating the advertisement message with at least one targeted audience selection parameter; and transmitting said advertisement message and said at least one targeted audience selection parameter to the headend (15); and performing the following at the headend (15): processing the advertisement message and the at least one targeted audience selection parameter to create an advertisement transmission program for broadcast to the targeted audience; and broadcasting the advertisement transmission program to the targeted audience based, at least in part, on the at least one targeted audience selection parameter.
摘要:
A method for hindering detection of secret information unintentionally leaked from a secret held in a memory unit, the method comprising: storing the secret information in a location within the memory unit; episodically re-deriving the secret information; and storing the re-derived secret information at the location within the memory unit, wherein the episodic re-deriving of the secret information causes an episodic change of physical contents of the memory unit holding the secret information, thereby causing the secret information unintentionally leaked from the memory unit to vary over time causing any detector of leaked information requiring long collection times to receive an average of the leaked information, the average of the leaked information not revealing the leaked information.
摘要:
A method for generating a signature for an end user device is disclosed. The end user device (180) comprises at least video display hardware (106) and video display software. The method comprises: processing video data by the video display hardware (106) and the video display software, thereby altering at least a portion of the video data according to a characteristic of at least one of the video display hardware (194) and the video display software to form altered data; forming the signature at the end user device (180) based, at least in part, on said altered data; generating a user profile for said end user device (180) using said signature; and transmitting said user profile to a headend (104) for use in uniquely protecting content to be sent to said end user device (180).
摘要:
A method for displaying advertisements at a user unit (20) is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, at the user unit (20), at least one advertisement for an item, said at least one advertisement associated with: at least one alternative advertisement for a different item or for said item offered by a different vendor; and a replacement indication indicating whether a user of said user unit (20) is allowed to replace displaying of said at least one advertisement by displaying of said at least one alternative advertisement; and if the replacement indication indicates that the user is allowed to replace displaying of said at least one advertisement by displaying of said at least one alternative advertisement, replace displaying of said at least one advertisement by displaying said at least one alternative advertisement in accordance with a selection of the user.
摘要:
A method for hindering detection of secret information unintentionally leaked from a secret held in a memory unit, the method comprising: storing the secret information in a location within the memory unit; episodically re-deriving the secret information; and storing the re-derived secret information at the location within the memory unit, wherein the episodic re-deriving of the secret information causes an episodic change of physical contents of the memory unit holding the secret information, thereby causing the secret information unintentionally leaked from the memory unit to vary over time causing any detector of leaked information requiring long collection times to receive an average of the leaked information, the average of the leaked information not revealing the leaked information.
摘要:
A system (10) for scrambling / descrambling packets (20,22) of a stream of content (16) is disclosed, each of the packets (20,22) having a must stay clear (MSC) section (24) which is always kept in the clear, the system (10) comprising: an input handler (12) including: a receiving module (34) to receive the stream (16); and a mask module (46) to create, for each of the packets (20,22), a data mask (48) which includes all data of the MSC section except for at least one bit of data of the MSC section; and a scrambling / descrambling device (14) operationally associated with the input handler (12), the scrambling / descrambling device (14) including: a receiving module (50) to receive the data mask (48) for each of the packets (20,22) from the input handler (12); and an Initial Value module (52) to determine an Initial Value (70) for each of the packets (20,22) as a function of the data mask (48) of one of the packets (20,22) being processed such that the Initial Value (70) is not a function of the at least one bit of data of the MSC section (24) of the one packet (20,22) being processed, the scrambling /descrambling device (14) being adapted to at least one of scramble and descramble the packets (20,22) based on the Initial Value (70) and a Control Word (62).