Automated Internet Streaming Playback With Synchronized Audio Redistribution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing devices struggle with synchronizing audio and video playback when streaming content over wireless networks due to transmission delays, leading to unsynchronized playback on different devices.
Innovation Solution
A device configured to automatically retrieve user credentials, select a web media service, and initiate playback, with the ability to control the stream and redistribute it to connected devices, using a software stack that includes a web browser, application programming interfaces, and sink programs for audio and video playback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If audio is sent wirelessly to a separate playback device, then audio quality and volume are improved, but audio-video synchronization deteriorates due to transmission delays
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the audio stream from the video stream and sends it separately to an audio playback device. The video is played on the primary device while audio is routed independently to a secondary device, allowing each to be optimized separately. This extraction resolves the contradiction by enabling high-quality audio output while maintaining synchronization through independent stream handling.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the audio-video stream into separate audio and video components that can be processed and transmitted independently. By dividing the media stream, the system can optimize audio quality for wireless transmission to external devices while keeping video playback synchronized on the primary device, thus resolving the synchronization issue.
2Reliability
If manual login and stream selection is required, then security and user control are improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically retrieving stored user credentials and pre-selecting the appropriate web media service and stream based on user preferences or history. This preliminary automation maintains security through stored credentials while dramatically simplifying operation to a single voice command or button press.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides self-service by automatically handling the login process using stored credentials, selecting the appropriate stream, and initiating playback without requiring manual user intervention for each step. The user simply provides the high-level command while the system handles the detailed operations autonomously.
3Ease of operation
If automated playback control is implemented, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a web browser as an intermediary component that handles the complex interactions with web media services. Rather than building direct integration with each service, the browser acts as a mediator that manages authentication, stream selection, and playback control, thereby simplifying the overall system architecture while enabling automated operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses a universal web browser and API interface that can interact with multiple different web media services through standardized protocols. This multi-functional approach allows the device to automate playback across various services without requiring service-specific complex integration logic for each platform.
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AI summary
Automated playback and redistribution of internet streaming content using a device that is configured to receive a command to select a web media service, and automatically, without human intervention, retrieve user credentials for the selected web media service, use the command to select a correct web browser instance, retrieve a sign-in page from the selected web media service, insert the user credentials into the sign-in page, log into the web media service, then select a stream on the web media service and initiate playback of the selected stream.