Collaboration Platform Content Distribution Execution Criteria

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Solution Overview

Problem

Content providers face limitations in controlling the distribution and execution of digital content, as they lack the ability to enforce group and device collaboration criteria, leading to uninhibited sharing that fails to ensure optimal user experience based on device capabilities and timing.

Innovation Solution

A collaboration platform that determines and enforces execution criteria for content distribution based on presence, capability, and characteristic information of nearby devices, allowing for targeted and synchronized content execution among user equipment.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If content providers allow uninhibited sharing of content, then content distribution and sharing ease is improved, but control over execution criteria and user experience quality deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent sharing easeVSAvoidexecution criteria control
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system establishes execution criteria in advance before content distribution occurs. These criteria include device capability requirements, user presence conditions, and group collaboration parameters that must be satisfied before content execution is permitted, thereby maintaining control while enabling sharing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors and evaluates whether execution criteria are met based on real-time device presence, capability information, and user interactions. This feedback mechanism allows dynamic control over content execution while maintaining ease of sharing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If content providers enforce execution criteria based on device capabilities and presence information, then user experience quality and content execution reliability are improved, but system complexity and difficulty of implementation increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent execution reliabilityVSAvoidsystem implementation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The execution criteria are divided into separate, manageable components including device capability requirements, presence information conditions, user identification parameters, and group collaboration rules. This segmentation allows independent evaluation of each criterion without requiring complex integrated processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary layer that mediates between content providers and end users, handling the complex evaluation of execution criteria. This intermediary manages device capability assessment, presence information processing, and criteria enforcement, shielding content providers from implementation complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If content distribution is based on group collaboration and device proximity criteria, then targeted content delivery and user interaction quality are improved, but distribution speed and reach deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interaction qualityVSAvoidcontent distribution speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies execution criteria selectively rather than universally to all content distribution scenarios. Criteria such as group collaboration requirements and device proximity checks are applied only when appropriate for the specific content type and distribution context, allowing rapid distribution for simple cases while maintaining quality control for collaborative content

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS9571604B2Method and apparatus for distributing collaborative content
Publication Date: 2017.02.14 NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
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AI summary

An example approach for enabling content to be distributed based on user and device related execution criteria is described. A collaboration platform determines one or more execution criteria for at least one device based, at least in part, on presence information, capability information, characteristic information, or a combination thereof of at least one other device within proximity of the at least one device. The collaboration platform also determines an execution of the one or more content items based, at least in part, on one or more execution criteria associated with the one or more content items.