Communal Media Synchronization System for Multi-Device Lag Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communal media systems face challenges in synchronizing multimedia content and social media interactions across diverse user devices with different network configurations, leading to fragmented and lagged experiences during shared events.
Innovation Solution
A communal media system that includes a content management system, a synchronization system, and a display system, which registers user devices, retrieves and synchronizes multimedia content, adjusts deliveries based on network bandwidth, and transmits multiple screens simultaneously, ensuring synchronized delivery of multimedia and social media content across devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multimedia content is delivered to multiple user devices with different network configurations, then each user can participate in the communal session, but noticeable lag and desynchronization occur between devices
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by measuring network bandwidth for each user device before the communal session begins. These measurements are stored and used to pre-calculate delivery parameters, ensuring that content is delivered in a way that accounts for each device's network capabilities from the start, preventing lag and desynchronization during the session.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes delivery parameters such as bitrate, resolution, and buffer size based on the measured network bandwidth of each user device. By dynamically adjusting these parameters according to network conditions, the system maintains synchronized content delivery across devices with different network configurations without noticeable lag.
2Ease of manufacture
If a single platform provides video streaming, video sharing, group video chat, and group text as discrete features, then each feature can be optimized independently, but the user experience becomes fragmented
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges video streaming, video sharing, group video chat, and group text features into a single integrated communal session platform. All these features work together seamlessly within one session, allowing users to view content, interact via text, and share videos without switching between separate applications, thus eliminating the fragmented experience while maintaining independent optimization of each feature.
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AI summary
A communal media system includes a synchronization system to retrieve the multimedia content for delivery to participating user devices and receive a request from a user device for multimedia content being displayed on participating user devices. The multimedia content being displayed on a first participating device is different from the multimedia content being displayed on a second participating device. The synchronization system receives social media content generated by user devices, adjusts simultaneous deliveries of the multimedia content being displayed on the first and second participating user devices and the social media content to the user devices, and transmits, to user devices in the communal session, multiple screens including the multimedia content being displayed on the first and second participating user devices at the same time. A display system causes the user devices in the communal session to simultaneously display multiple screens at the same time.