Cloud Streaming Service Menu State Initialization for Simultaneous Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cloud streaming services require users to return to a menu screen after using content, preventing simultaneous access by multiple users, which disrupts service continuity.
Innovation Solution
A cloud streaming-based system that initializes a step-by-step service menu on a terminal device, allowing additional access until content playback is complete, and maintains the menu state for seamless re-access, enabling simultaneous access for multiple users.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If a user accesses a service menu in a conventional cloud streaming service, then the user can select and view content, but the menu screen remains occupied preventing other users from accessing the service simultaneously
Solution Approach 1:
The service menu access is segmented into two independent states: active viewing state and available state. When a user selects content, the system segments the menu resource by transitioning it to an available state rather than maintaining it in an occupied state, allowing other users to access the menu simultaneously while the first user views content.
Solution Approach 2:
The menu screen is discarded (released) from the user's session when content playback begins, and recovered (made available) for other users. The system discards the menu occupation status upon content selection and recovers the service resource for simultaneous access by multiple users.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a user returns to the menu screen after viewing content, then the user can select additional content, but the access state must be maintained preventing other users from accessing the service
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-initializing the service menu state to an available condition before user access. When a user completes content viewing and returns to the menu, the menu is already prepared in an available state, eliminating the need to maintain continuous access occupation and enabling simultaneous user access.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of maintaining menu occupation during content viewing and requiring release upon return, the system inverts the approach by releasing menu occupation upon content selection and maintaining availability for simultaneous access. The access state is inverted from persistent occupation to conditional availability.
3Reliability
If the service menu maintains access state for user convenience, then service continuity is improved, but simultaneous access by multiple users is prevented
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a copy of the menu state information rather than maintaining a single shared access state. When users access the service, each receives a reference to the menu state without exclusive occupation, allowing multiple users to interact with the service simultaneously while the system manages state transitions through standardized protocols.
Data Source
AI summary
A system for providing a cloud streaming-based service menu, a method and a terminal device. The terminal device selects a particular step in a step-by-step service menu to make a request for driving a content and the service device, in response to the request, provides content access information and menu step information corresponding to the particular step selected and initializes a step in the step-by-step service menu provided to the terminal device for switching a state of the service menu to a state in which an additional access of another terminal device is possible, so as to provide the initialized step-by-step service menu to another initially accessed terminal device. When the terminal device re-accesses, the service device will provide the service menu of the particular step corresponding to the menu step information to another accessed terminal device.