Content Digest Segmentation for Mobile Battery Conservation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Mobile devices face battery life issues due to hardware requirements and large content sizes, with conventional content delivery methods further draining battery capacity.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method for generating and transmitting content digests in portions to mobile devices, compressing content, and adjusting transmission based on connection quality, allowing for timely content delivery while reducing battery consumption.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If conventional content delivery methods are used to provide content to mobile devices, then content can be delivered to users, but battery consumption increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent delivery efficiencyVSAvoidbattery consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The content digest is divided into multiple portions that are transmitted separately to the user's computing device at different times. This segmentation allows the system to deliver content in manageable chunks rather than as a single large download, reducing the immediate battery burden while ensuring complete content delivery.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system transmits portions of the content digest in advance before the user actually needs to access them. By pre-delivering content portions and storing them locally, the system reduces the need for repeated network connections and downloads, thereby conserving battery power while maintaining content availability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Quantity of substance

If large content sizes are transmitted to mobile devices, then comprehensive content is provided to users, but device performance and battery life are degraded

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent volumeVSAvoiddevice performance
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The large content digest is segmented into smaller portions that are transmitted and stored separately. This reduces the memory and processing burden on the mobile device at any given time, while still providing access to the complete content set across multiple transmissions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system extracts and transmits only the necessary portions of content at each transmission event, rather than delivering the entire content digest in one go. This selective extraction approach reduces the immediate data load on the device while ensuring comprehensive content delivery over time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Use of energy by moving object

If content is transmitted in multiple portions, then battery consumption is reduced, but transmission time and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebattery consumptionVSAvoidtransmission time
Core Design Contradiction:
Use of energy by moving objectVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Content portions are transmitted and stored in advance before user access is needed. This preliminary action eliminates the need for time-consuming downloads at the moment of use, reducing perceived transmission time while maintaining energy efficiency through分批 delivery.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system maintains continuous content delivery across multiple transmissions, ensuring that content is progressively available without interruption. This continuous action approach optimizes the balance between energy conservation and timely content availability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS9742836B2Systems and methods for content delivery
Publication Date: 2017.08.22 YAHOO ASSETS LLC
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AI summary

Embodiments of the present disclosure may be utilized to analyze a content item comprising text to identify: a quote, a named entity that is the source of the quote (e.g., a person or organization such as a company), and identification information for the named entity (such as a title of the person giving the quote). Quotes may also be ranked to determine, for example, the best quotes to include in an article.