Patents Assigned to Nagravision S.A.
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Patent number: 10728278Abstract: Malware detection logic executed by a secured device residing in a home network may receive a message from an unsecured device of a first unsecured network and intended for a destination device of the home network, the destination device comprising a security client. The malware detection logic may establish a secure communication channel between the malware detection logic of the secured device and the security client of the destination device. The malware detection logic may execute a validation test on the message to determine that the message includes malware. The malware detection logic may report an alarm to the security client of the destination device. The malware detection logic may transmit information related to the malware to a cloud computing server. The malware detection logic may prevent an application associated with the destination device from processing the message.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2019Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: NAGRAVISION S.A.Inventor: Philippe Stransky-Heilkron
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Patent number: 10721544Abstract: The disclosure provides a method of making watermarking data embedded in an Elementary Stream ES accessible to a receiver. The ES comprises video and/or audio data and is to be transmitted as a Packetized Elementary Stream PES in a Transport Stream TS such that the receiver can use the watermarking data to watermark the video and/or audio data in the ES without reconstructing the ES from the TS. The watermarking data identifies one or more watermarking locations in the video and/or audio data in the ES to be modified by the receiver in accordance with the watermarking data. The method comprises determining respective one or more watermarking TS locations in the TS corresponding to the one or more watermarking locations. The method further comprises embedding, in the ES, the watermarking data including watermarking location information identifying the one or more watermarking TS locations, or modifying watermarking data embedded in the ES by adding the watermarking location information.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: NAGRAVISION S.A.Inventor: Didier Hunacek
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Patent number: 10715557Abstract: System and method for establishing secure conference calls. In one example system, a central conference call server establishes point-to-point connections with accessory devices comprising a secure element and connected to corresponding participant devices. The conference call server includes an interface to a plurality of secure elements configured to perform scrambling and unscrambling of media signals communicated to and from the accessory devices. In another example, one of the participant devices operates as the central conference call server. In other examples, participant devices communicate on a conference call via point-to-point connections between all accessory devices connected to the participant devices. The accessory devices include secure elements for decryption and encryption of media signals communicated between the accessory devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: NAGRAVISION S.A.Inventors: Francois Fer, Marco Macchetti, Laurent Gauteron, Jerome Perrine
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Patent number: 10708634Abstract: The present invention is directed to playing an alternative pre-stored content in place of a particular type of content received by the player within a transport stream comprising a plurality of types of content. The invention can be useful in providing targeted advertising, where, when combined with profiling techniques, alternative content of interest to a viewer can be substituted in the transport stream in place of the received content. According to other embodiments of the present invention, computing resources and communication bandwidth use can be saved by playing pre-stored content instead of the received content. Embodiments of the present invention provide for the maintenance of the pre-stored material by storing appropriate content as it is received in the transport stream or by deleting pre-stored content when deemed appropriate to do so. An embodiment of the present invention may be deployed in a personal video player/recorder.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2012Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: NAGRAVISION S.A.Inventors: Alain Le Pelerin, Matthieu Piquet
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Publication number: 20200209309Abstract: A method for detecting at least one glitch in an electrical signal. This method comprises: generating, from said electrical signal, at least one digital oscillating signal which is sensitive to glitches; and—performing the following steps as a repeatable round: (a) assigning a time window to at least one digital oscillating signal; said time window being implemented on the basis of a clock signal substantially insensitive to said at least one glitch to be detected; (b) determining from said time window a sampling value of the digital oscillating signal, said sampling value being characteristic of said digital oscillating signal throughout its time window; (c) detecting any potential glitch in said electrical signal by comparing said sampling value with an expected reference value; and (d) outputting a response typifying a result of the comparison step. Also, a device for implementing said method is described.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2018Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: NAGRAVISION S.A.Inventor: Jean-Marie MARTIN
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Patent number: 10700857Abstract: Secure Programming of Secret data A method is provided. The method comprises providing a device comprising a secure element coupled to a non-volatile memory, the non-volatile memory comprising a first cryptographic key stored therein; the secure element decrypting and authenticating first secret data using the first cryptographic key to form second secret data; and then rendering the true value of the first cryptographic key unreadable.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: NAGRAVISION S.A.Inventor: Didier Hunacek
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Patent number: 10649717Abstract: An apparatus includes an audio-sensor inhibitor configured to inhibit detection of sound by an audio sensor of a communication device, and a secure communication interface coupled to the audio-sensor inhibitor, the secure communication interface being configured to transmit encrypted audio data from the secure communication interface to the communication device, wherein the communication interface generates audio data using a secure-interface audio sensor, and generates the encrypted audio data by encrypting the audio data using a cryptographic module.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: NAGRAVISION S.A.Inventors: Jean-Claude Fournier, Bernard Benoit, Bertrand Wendling, Andre Kudelski
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Publication number: 20200145471Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention may be deployed in a system comprising a media player and a remote server operably connected to communicate with one another. The invention allows for a settings file to be stored on the remote server, the settings file comprising parameters useful for adjusting different settings on the media player such that rendering of a particular content to be made possible on the media player according to a user's predetermined taste by downloading the settings from the server onto the media player.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Applicant: NAGRAVISION S.A.Inventors: Aditee Anil PATHAK, Philippe STRANSKY, Gyanveer SINGH
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Publication number: 20200137072Abstract: A method of enabling a user to access recorded data associated with an event, the method comprising determining the location of a user's device at a control unit, confirming the location is within a predetermined vicinity and that the user's device was at the location within a predetermined period and the control unit enabling access for the user to the data if the location of the user's device in the predetermined period is confirmed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: NAGRAVISION S.A.Inventors: Olivier Schaer, Sami Karoui, Florent Schlaeppi
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Patent number: 10631022Abstract: A post-processing of video content in order to provide a capability to insert ad content, having a method to produce a modified video content from an original video content. The method comprising: analyzing the original video content to detect at least one marker, said marker comprising a marker surface delimited by a marker identification; loading profile data of a target user; determining, based at least on the profile data a replacement content; adjusting the replacement content into the marker surface; and replacing into the original video content the marker surface by the adjusted replacement content to produce the modified video content.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Nagravision S.A.Inventor: Philippe Stransky-Heilkron
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Publication number: 20200107052Abstract: A method for transmitting services information in a broadcasting network by at least one managing center towards a plurality of receivers includes exploring streams broadcasted by a DVB network and streams broadcasted by an IP network and extracting services information from these streams, completing an information table, situated at the highest level in a hierarchy of services information tables, included in the service information DVB-SI transmitted by the DVB network by services information related to the IP network, and transmitting the completed information table in the streams broadcasted by the DVB network towards the receivers having two switchable receiving modules, connected respectively to a DVB and an IP services broadcasting network. The receivers are able to activate the reception of digital data of a service, equivalent to the service currently received, with a second receiving module when receiving conditions of a first receiving module are degraded.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: NAGRAVISION S.A.Inventor: Antoine BURCKARD
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Patent number: 10609028Abstract: A method for securing transmission of digital data in a communication network comprising a central station or a terminal and at least one device monitored by the central station via the communication network. The at least one device is configured to produce and to transmit a digital data stream to the central station or terminal. The at least one device further comprises a secure non-volatile memory for storing at least device specific information. The at least one device forms a data block based on at least the device specific information stored in the secure memory. The data block thus formed may compose additional data to be merged with the digital data stream produced by the at least one device. A modified digital data stream results from this merging operation and is transmitted by the at least one device to the central station or terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Nagravision S.A.Inventors: Pierre Sarda, Didier Hunacek, John Tinsman, Philippe Stransky-Heilkron
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Publication number: 20200099971Abstract: The present invention relates to the domain of control of access to audiovisual content transmitted to a receiver, in particular control based on the localization of the receiver. This invention proposes a method of control of access to content transmitted to a receiver, said receiver being part of an access geographic control system comprising verification means and security means, the method comprising the following steps: acquisition of a current localization by a portable device, transfer of the current localization to the verification means, extraction, in a memory of the verification means, of a localization data set defining at least one area, verification, by the verification means, that the current localization is included in said area, and if so, transmission of an authorization message for the reception of the audiovisual content to the security means relative to the receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: NAGRAVISION S.A.Inventors: David SERVIGNAT, Jose-Emmanuel PONT, Frederic THOMAS, Scott JANTZ, Nir LIVAY
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Publication number: 20200080866Abstract: A method for managing communications within a network comprising utility meters, each associated and connected to at least one utility management center through at least one intermediate data concentrator. A message is sent by a utility meter to the destination data concentrator. This message includes metering data measurement reported by said utility meter, its utility meter identifier, the destination data concentrator identifier and the management center identifier. Then, on the basis of several metering data measurements, a metering counter differential consumption value is calculated by difference of two metering counter consumption indexes measured by the utility meter within a time period interval. Then, a report containing at least the metering counter differential consumption value is sent from the destination data concentrator towards the utility management center to which said utility meter is associated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: NAGRAVISION S.A.Inventors: Joel Wenger, Corinne Le Buhan
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Publication number: 20200068244Abstract: A method of transmitting entitlement messages to content consumption devices in a access control system, the method comprising periodically transmitting entitlement messages to content consumption devices in a access control system and periodically extending an expiry time comprised in the entitlement messages. The entitlement messages comprise indicator data indicating to the content consumption devices that subsequent entitlement messages loaded into a content consumption device after a first entitlement message is loaded into the content consumption device shall not be used by the content consumption device to access protected media content.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Applicant: NAGRAVISION S.A.Inventors: Didier HUNACEK, Jean-Bernard FISCHER
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Publication number: 20200036797Abstract: In order to allow an access to the Internet, and therefore to a remote server, for a device having no connection with an Internet gateway, a method to transmit a message from a first device to a remote server, the first device having no connection with the remote server, the method including detecting a second device by the first device, establishing a communication channel between the first and the second device, transferring the message from the first to the second device, the message including an address of the remote server, transferring, by the second device, the message to the remote server using the remote server address contained in the message.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: NAGRAVISION, S.A.Inventor: Andre KUDELSKI
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Publication number: 20200028698Abstract: Content source and sink devices and methods help to guard against compromising security of content transferred from a source device to a sink device, for example where a primary encryption mechanism protecting the content has been compromised. A content source device is configured to connect to a content sink device to transmit digital media content to the content sink device. The content source device includes a connection module configured to establish a connection to the sink device, encrypt a digital media content for transmission across the connection with a first cipher using a connection key, and transmit the encrypted digital media content to the sink device over the connection. The content source also includes a protection module configured to prevent the sink device from using the digital media content without authorisation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2018Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: NAGRAVISION S.A.Inventors: Didier HUNACEK, Herve GOUPIL
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Patent number: 10520332Abstract: A method for managing communications within a network comprising utility meters, each associated and connected to at least one utility management center through at least one intermediate data concentrator. A message is sent by a utility meter to the destination data concentrator. This message includes metering data measurement reported by said utility meter, its utility meter identifier, the destination data concentrator identifier and the management center identifier. Then, on the basis of several metering data measurements, a metering counter differential consumption value is calculated by difference of two metering counter consumption indexes measured by the utility meter within a time period interval. Then, a report containing at least the metering counter differential consumption value is sent from the destination data concentrator towards the utility management center to which said utility meter is associated.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: NAGRAVISION S.A.Inventors: Joel Wenger, Corinne Le Buhan
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Publication number: 20190356380Abstract: A method of acquiring access rights to conditional access content. The method comprises receiving an access right on a first terminal through a first communication channel; storing said access right in said first terminal; sending a request for said conditional access content to a content provider, said request containing at least an identifier of an account to Which said first terminal is associated, an identifier of the requested content and a piece of information concerning said access right; verifying, by said content provider, the authenticity of said access right using said piece of information concerning the access right; and when there has been a successful verification, marking said access right as used, and sending said conditional access content to at least one terminal linked to said account. The first terminal using near field communication technology (NFC) during at least one transfer of said access rights.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: NAGRAVISION S.A.Inventors: Pierre Sarda, Philippe Stransky, Bertrand Wendling
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Patent number: 10484395Abstract: A method of enabling a user to access recorded data associated with an event, the method comprising determining the location of a user's device at a control unit, confirming the location is within a predetermined vicinity and that the user's device was at the location within a predetermined period and the control unit enabling access for the user to the data if the location of the user's device in the predetermined period is confirmed.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Nagravision S.A.Inventors: Olivier Schaer, Sami Karoui, Florent Schlaeppi