Channel-Based Content Relay System for Public Displays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies lack a platform for users to share and display content, such as games or videos, on public display devices like TVs in public places, limiting user interaction and business opportunities.
Innovation Solution
A channel-based content relay method and system that allows users to connect their devices to a shared network, select channels, and relay content execution screens to display devices, enabling content sharing and competition among users, regardless of their friendship status.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users share contents through wireless communication transmission, then content sharing between users is enabled, but the system lacks a centralized platform for public display and user interaction
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary component that mediates between user terminals and public display devices. The server receives content from user terminals, manages channel connections, and relays content to appropriate display devices, thereby enabling content sharing without requiring direct peer-to-peer communication between all users and displays.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is segmented into distinct functional components: user terminals for content generation, a server for coordination and channel management, and public display devices for content presentation. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function independently, simplifying the overall system architecture while enabling versatile content sharing.
2Ease of operation
If public display devices display preset broadcastings and advertisings, then the devices are easily operated, but the devices cannot support user participation and content relay
Solution Approach 1:
The display devices transition from a static state (displaying only preset content) to a dynamic state (capable of receiving and displaying user-generated content). The system enables display devices to adapt their content source based on channel connections and user participation, while the server manages this dynamic behavior to maintain operational simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
Public display devices are designed with multi-functionality: they can display both traditional preset broadcastings and advertisings, as well as relay user-generated content from connected terminals. This universal capability allows the same hardware to serve multiple purposes without requiring separate dedicated devices for each function.
3Productivity
If a platform enables users to compete for specific events through content relay, then user participation and competition are enhanced, but the network connection and channel management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The server implements feedback mechanisms to manage channel connections and content relay. It receives connection requests from user terminals, authenticates them against channel credentials, and provides feedback on connection status. This automated feedback loop simplifies the management of complex multi-user connections and channel assignments.
Solution Approach 2:
User terminals automatically perform channel discovery and connection procedures by searching for available channels and initiating connections based on channel credentials. The system enables users to self-manage their participation in competitive events without requiring manual intervention for each connection, thereby reducing management complexity while maintaining high participation rates.
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AI summary
A channel-based method and system for relaying contents are disclosed. The content relaying method generates a channel on the basis of a user terminal or a specific group adjacent to a display device and can relay, to the display device, a screen for executing the contents displayed on the user terminal when the user terminal accesses the generated channel.