Content Delivery Device Attribute Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Modern electronic devices struggle to provide content in a manner that is convenient and easily recognizable to users across multiple interconnected devices, leading to inefficiencies in content delivery and potential exposure of personal information.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device system that analyzes attributes of content, devices, and user states to determine the most suitable device for content delivery, considering security levels, user preferences, and device capabilities, thereby optimizing content provision and minimizing personal information exposure.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If content is provided through multiple electronic devices without analysis, then content delivery speed is improved, but personal information security deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent delivery speedVSAvoidpersonal information exposure
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of device attributes, content attributes, and user states before content delivery to determine the most appropriate target device. This advance preparation ensures secure content provision without exposing personal information, while maintaining efficient delivery through pre-evaluated device selection

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary analysis mechanism that evaluates multiple factors (device attributes, content attributes, user states) before routing content to the appropriate device. This intermediary layer acts as a security gatekeeper that enables fast content delivery while protecting personal information through intelligent device selection

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If device attributes are analyzed to determine content delivery, then content provision accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent provision accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the content delivery decision into distinct analysis components: device attribute analysis, content attribute analysis, and user state analysis. Each component evaluates specific factors independently, then combines results to determine the target device. This segmentation improves provision accuracy while managing system complexity through modular analysis

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameters being monitored from simple device identification to comprehensive attribute analysis including device capabilities, content characteristics, and user states. By dynamically adjusting which parameters are analyzed based on the specific content and context, the system achieves high provision accuracy without requiring complex analysis of all possible parameters in all situations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP3054697B1Electronic device and content providing method thereof
Publication Date: 2020.12.16 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication module configured to request from at least one second electronic device to transmit device information, and to receive the device information from the at least one second electronic device. The electronic device also includes a control module configured to analyze attributes of content using content information if a content providing event occurs, to analyze attributes of the at least one second electronic device using the received device information and the attributes of the electronic device, and to determine at least one target electronic device to provide the content to a user, according to the result of analyzing the attributes of the content and the result of analyzing the attributes of the electronic device and the at least one second electronic device.