Connected Device Content Delivery Confirmation Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content delivery systems for connected devices often result in failed subscriptions due to outdated or inaccurate information about user subscriptions, leading to unnecessary costs and inefficiencies in billing and technical support, as users may be charged for content not successfully accessed or installed.
Innovation Solution
A method for providing content on connected devices that includes confirming the receipt and successful installation of applications and consumable content, establishing a billing relationship based on accurate terms, and periodically supplying data updates, ensuring users are charged only for accessed content and allowing for informed space management on the device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If content delivery is initiated without confirming successful installation, then content can be sent to the client quickly, but billing errors occur when content is not successfully accessed or installed
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where the connected device sends a confirmation message to the content delivery system after successfully installing the application and consumable content. This feedback loop ensures that billing is triggered only upon successful installation, resolving the contradiction between fast content delivery and accurate billing by adding a verification step that does not significantly delay the overall process.
Solution Approach 2:
The content delivery system sends the application and consumable content to the connected device before establishing the billing relationship. This preliminary action allows the content to be delivered and installed first, with billing confirmed only after successful installation is verified through the feedback mechanism, thus maintaining both speed and accuracy.
2Device complexity
If subscription information is not updated based on client confirmation, then the system can operate with simpler processes, but subscription status becomes outdated or inaccurate
Solution Approach 1:
The system updates subscription information based on feedback from the connected device confirming successful content installation. This feedback-driven update mechanism ensures subscription status remains accurate without requiring complex continuous monitoring, as updates are triggered only when necessary by actual installation events.
Data Source
AI summary
Among other disclosures, a method can include executing instructions on a computing platform so that an application and consumable content rendered by the application are provided to a connected device, executing instructions on the computing platform so that a confirmation is obtained that the application and consumable content were received by the connected device and the application was successfully installed by the connected device, and executing instructions on the computing platform so that a content delivery relationship, including a billing relationship, is established in response to the obtained confirmation.