TWI577187B - A cloud system for digital television - Google Patents

Description

Digital TV cloud system

The present invention relates to a digital television cloud system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a digital television viewer as a basic unit, and provides all electronic devices in the viewing room to access the system and share the electronic devices. A digital television cloud system for multimedia data.

As the Republic of China gradually promoted the popularization of digital TV, the familiar Cable TV was gradually replaced by digital cable TV, and every household was equipped with a digital TV set-top box to watch higher quality, on-demand, and program channels. More yuan in digital cable programming content. And because the digital TV signal transmission method includes a broadband network, the digital TV can access Internet resources, such as cloud storage services.

However, most of the traditional cloud storage services are registered by the user to obtain a dedicated cloud space and only the user can access and use. This property conflicts with the digital TV service used by family members. Turning the personal-oriented cloud storage service into a family member with access to a common cloud storage space becomes a problem when integrating digital TV with cloud storage services.

In view of the above, in view of the above problems, the present invention provides a digital television cloud system. The system provides a cloud service to a plurality of users via a plurality of sets of television sets, each of which corresponds to a digital television viewer, and each user corresponds to an electronic device. The invention is based on the viewer as the basic unit, and integrates the electronic device with the system usage right in the receiving household so that a multimedia material can be shared among the plurality of electronic devices by the invention. The digital TV cloud system includes: a cloud server, a user integration module, a user rights management module, and a sharing management module.

The cloud server includes a cloud hard disk, and each user can register on the cloud server by using the corresponding electronic device, and upload and store a multimedia material on the cloud hard disk.

The user integration module is implemented in the cloud server for grouping and integrating the registered electronic devices on a per-viewer basis, so that the multimedia devices stored in the cloud hard disk by the electronic device of the same viewer can be Share the electronic device to the same viewer.

The user rights management module is executed on the cloud server and coupled to the user integration module. The user includes a primary user, and the user rights management module is used to provide the primary user to control the electronic device to use the digital television. The privilege of the cloud system; and the sharing management module, which is executed on the cloud server and coupled with the user rights management module, is used to provide a user to set the sharing object and sharing mode of the multimedia data stored in the cloud hard disk.

Compared with the prior art, the present invention stores the multimedia data and shares it on the electronic device registered with the right to use the invention in the same audience, and the main user has to perform integrated management of the use right, and then the user Determining the sharing and sharing methods of multimedia materials to form a cloud storage service shared by a family.

1‧‧‧Digital TV Cloud System

10‧‧‧Cloud Server

101‧‧‧Cloud Hard Drive

102‧‧‧User Registration Module

104‧‧‧Verification Code Generation Module

106‧‧‧Interface generation module

108‧‧‧ Pairing module

111‧‧‧User Integration Module

113‧‧‧User Rights Management Module

115‧‧‧Share Management Module

117‧‧‧Encryption protection module

119‧‧‧Notification module

20‧‧‧TV box

30‧‧‧Electronic devices

40‧‧‧TV

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a digital television cloud system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of a system for managing a digital television cloud system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of a system for registering a digital television cloud system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring first to FIG. 1, FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a digital television cloud system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The digital television cloud system 1 of the present invention provides a cloud service to a plurality of users via a plurality of television set boxes 20, and each television set top box 20 corresponds to a television set 40 of a viewer, each user corresponding to an electronic device. The device 30 includes a cloud server 10, a user registration module 102, a verification code generation module 104, an interface generation module 106, a pairing module 108, and a user integration module 111. A user rights management module 113, a sharing management module 115, an encryption protection module 117, and a notification module 119.

The cloud server 10, the set-top box 20, and the electronic device 30 are connected to each other by a network. The cloud server 10 has a cloud hard disk 101 and is installed on the provider of the digital television service. Each user can register on the cloud server 10 by using the corresponding electronic device 30, and upload and store a multimedia material on the cloud hard disk 101; and all the foregoing modules are executed in the cloud server, wherein The electronic device 30 includes a smart phone, a tablet computer, a desktop computer, and the like.

All of the above modules can be divided into two uses: the user registration module The verification code generation module 104, the interface generation module 106, and the pairing module 108 are responsible for processing the user's right to use the television set box 20 and the electronic device 30 to register the digital television cloud system 1; The group 111, the user rights management module 113, the sharing management module 115, the encryption protection module 117, and the notification module 119 are responsible for managing the digital television cloud system 1, and also managing the right to use the digital television cloud system 1 registered. How users use the digital TV cloud system1.

Referring to FIG. 2, FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of a system for managing a digital television cloud system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Here, it is stated that the users in the viewing room have completed registration of the digital TV cloud system 1 and have obtained the right to use. How to register the digital TV cloud system 1 will be explained later.

After the user of the present invention has completed the registration of the digital television cloud system 1 and has obtained the right to use, the user integration module 111 performs user group management integration on a per-viewer basis to enable the same viewer. The multimedia material stored in the cloud hard disk 101 by an electronic device 30 may be shared between other electronic devices 30 of the same viewer. In all uses, there is a primary user who can use the user rights management module 113 to control the usage rights of other users' electronic devices 30, wherein the user rights management module 113 and the user The integration module 111 is coupled.

In addition, although the digital television cloud system 1 of the present invention is a cloud storage service for family members, in order to take into account the privacy of family members, each user may use the sharing management module 115 to set the multimedia data uploaded by the user. Which members view and how the multimedia materials are shared, such as online streaming and downloading to the electronic device 30.

On the other hand, in order to protect stored information, the present invention utilizes an encryption protection module. 117 is used to encrypt and protect the multimedia data and store it to the cloud hard disk 101, and the notification module 119 performs capacity management of the cloud hard disk. The encryption method is the same as the conventional encryption technology, and the description is not described herein. For example, when new data is transmitted to the cloud server 10 or the electronic device 30 by the digital television cloud system 1, the encryption protection module 117 sends a notification message to notify the user; and when the cloud of the cloud server 10 is hard When the available capacity of the disc 101 is less than 10% of the total capacity, the encryption protection module 117 also issues a warning message to notify the user. In addition to the basic free capacity, the capacity of the cloud hard disk 101 can also purchase the expanded storage space capacity through the set-top box 20 to the digital television service provider, and the payment method includes super-payment or online credit card swipe.

The above description explains the mechanism for managing the digital television cloud system 1 and the cloud hard disk 101 space of the present invention, but all of them are explained on the premise that the user has completed the registration of the digital television cloud system 1. The registration mechanism of the present invention will be described below.

Referring to FIG. 3, FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of a system for registering a digital television cloud system according to an embodiment of the present invention. When the user registers the digital television cloud system 1 after installing the television set box 20 for the first time, or when the user operates an electronic device 30 to register the digital television cloud system 1 and issues a user registration request, the execution is performed. After receiving the user registration request, the user registration module 102 of the cloud server 10 collects a unique identification code of the box 20 on the television and the set-top box 20 of the television set, or an IP address of the electronic device 30, and transmits it to the verification. Code generation module 104.

After receiving the unique identification code and the IP address, the verification code generation module 104 generates a set of verification codes required for registration, and transmits the verification code and the unique identification code to the IP address collected by the user registration module 102. In order to confirm whether the box 20 on the television set or the electronic device 30 is applying for registration. Then, the interface generation module 106 coupled to the verification code generation module 104 generates an input test. The interface of the certificate and the unique identification code is connected to the set-top box 20 or the electronic device 30 for the user to input the verification code and the exclusive identification code.

After the user inputs the verification code and the unique identification code in the interface, the pairing module 108 verifies whether the verification code and the exclusive identification code are the exclusive identification codes collected by the user registration module 102, and the verification code generation module 104 generates Verification code. When it is confirmed that the input verification code and the exclusive identification code are respectively identical to the exclusive identification code collected by the user registration module 102 and the verification code generated by the verification code generation module 104. Then, the electronic device 30 and the set-top box 20 are paired with the television set-top box 20 and the cloud server 10 by using the exclusive identification code, and the electronic device 30 and the electronic device 30 are paired with the electronic device 30. Get access to digital TV cloud system 1. The identity information includes a phone number and/or a Media Access Control Address of the electronic device 30.

When the input verification code and the unique identification code are not completely consistent with the unique identification code collected by the user registration module 102 and the verification code generated by the verification code generation module 104, that is, when there is an inconsistency or complete inconsistency The pairing module 108 will send a request to re-enter the verification code and the unique identification code to the user's electronic device 30 for re-input. The pairing module 108 is coupled to the user registration module 102 and the verification code generation module 104.

The cloud server 10 is paired with a plurality of set-top boxes 20, and the set-top box 20 is paired with a plurality of electronic devices 30.

In summary, the present invention provides a digital television cloud system, which allows a user to upload multimedia data to a cloud hard disk of a cloud server by using the present invention, and then share the multimedia data into an electronic device having the right to use the present invention. . By means of the user integration module, a digital TV viewer is used as a unit to integrate the electronic device registered in the viewing room with the right to use the invention, and then The user rights management module manages the user's permission to use the system, and the sharing management module allows the user to determine the sharing method and sharing object of the multimedia material.

Compared with the prior art, the present invention stores the multimedia data and shares it on the electronic device registered with the right to use the invention in the same audience, and the main user has to perform integrated management of the use right, and then the user Determining the sharing and sharing methods of multimedia materials to form a cloud storage service shared by a family.

The above description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention is intended to be illustrative of the invention and the scope of the invention. Although the present invention has been disclosed in the above embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present invention, and it is to be understood that the invention may be modified and modified without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. The scope is subject to the definition of the scope of the patent application attached.

1‧‧‧Digital TV Cloud System

10‧‧‧Cloud Server

111‧‧‧User Integration Module

113‧‧‧User Rights Management Module

115‧‧‧Share Management Module

117‧‧‧Encryption protection module

119‧‧‧Notification module

20‧‧‧TV box

30‧‧‧Electronic devices

40‧‧‧TV

Claims (8)

A digital television cloud system provides a cloud service to a plurality of users via a plurality of television set boxes, each of which corresponds to a viewer, each user corresponding to an electronic device, which includes; The registration module is executed by a cloud server for collecting a special identification code of the box on the television and the television when receiving a user registration request transmitted by the television set box or the electronic device a box, or an IP address of the electronic device; a verification code generating module, coupled to the cloud server and coupled to the user registration module, for generating a verification code required for registration, and transmitting the a verification code and the exclusive identification code to the IP address collected by the user registration module; an interface generation module is executed on the cloud server and coupled to the verification code generation module for generating The user inputs the interface of the verification code and the unique identification code to the IP address; a pairing module is executed on the cloud server and coupled to the user registration module and the verification code generation module, confirm Whether the verification code input by the user and the exclusive identification code are consistent with the exclusive identification code collected by the user registration module and the verification code generated by the verification code generation module; the cloud server includes a cloud hard Each user can register on the cloud server by using the corresponding electronic device, and upload and store a multimedia material on the cloud hard disk; a user integration module is executed on the cloud server For the registration of the electricity The sub-devices are grouped and integrated on a per-viewer basis so that the multimedia data stored in the cloud hard disk by the electronic devices of the same viewer can be shared to the electronic devices of the same viewer; The rights management module is configured to be coupled to the cloud server and coupled to the user integration module, the user includes a primary user, the user rights management module is configured to provide the primary user to control the And a shared management module, coupled to the cloud server and coupled to the user rights management module, for providing the user to set the multimedia data stored in the cloud hard disk The sharing object and the sharing method; wherein the verification code and the exclusive identification code input by the user, the exclusive identification code collected by the user registration module, and the verification code generated by the verification code generating module If the information is completely consistent, the set-top box and the cloud server are used by the exclusive identification code, and the electronic device is configured by using the identity information of the electronic device. Aligning the set-top box to confirm that the electronic device or the box on the television has the right to use the system; if not completely consistent, sending a request to re-enter the verification code and the unique identification code to the electronic device to request use Re-enter. The digital television cloud system of claim 1, further comprising an encryption protection module, configured to be executed by the cloud server to encrypt and protect the multimedia data to the cloud hard disk. The digital television cloud system of claim 1, wherein the identity information comprises a phone number and a Media Access Control Address. The digital television cloud system of claim 1, wherein the cloud server is paired with a plurality of the television set-top boxes, and the television set-top box is paired with a plurality of the electronic devices. The digital television cloud system of claim 1, wherein the sharing mode comprises online streaming and downloading and downloading to the electronic device. The digital television cloud system of claim 1, wherein the electronic device comprises a smart phone, a tablet computer, a desktop computer, and the like. The digital television cloud system of claim 1, further comprising a notification module, configured to send out new data when the system is transmitted to the cloud server or the electronic device A notification message notifies the user; and when the cloud server's available capacity of the cloud hard disk is less than 10% of the total capacity, the module sends a warning message to notify the user. The digital television cloud system of claim 1, wherein the cloud server, the television set top box and the electronic device are connected to each other by a network.