Content Driver Secure Partition Pixel Data Delivery

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Solution Overview

Problem

Cloud computing systems face challenges in securely delivering and managing content, particularly in ensuring the integrity and security of content delivery to user devices, as existing solutions lack robust mechanisms to prevent data interception and unauthorized access.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising a database and a server with an evaluation module and a content driver that launches virtual machines on user devices, generates and encrypts pixel data, and receives response inputs, using a User Datagram Protocol for secure content delivery and evaluation, ensuring secure content delivery and evaluation within a secured partition.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If cloud computing systems deliver content to user devices, then content accessibility and convenience are improved, but security and risk of data interception worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent accessibilityVSAvoiddata interception risk
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a content driver as an intermediary component that runs locally on the user device and mediates between the cloud computing system and the content delivery process. This content driver generates pixel data locally, preventing direct access to raw content data while maintaining content accessibility, thus resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and security risks

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces traditional content delivery mechanisms that transmit raw content data over the network with a system that transmits only pixel data generated locally. This substitution eliminates the vulnerability to data interception while preserving content accessibility, as the pixel data cannot be reverse-engineered to reveal the original content

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Ease of operation

If content is delivered in readable format, then usability is improved, but security and unauthorized access prevention worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveusabilityVSAvoidunauthorized access prevention
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by generating pixel data specifically for the display purpose rather than transmitting universal content formats. The pixel data maintains the necessary visual quality for usability while being locally generated and therefore secure against unauthorized access, resolving the contradiction between usability and security

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameter of content representation from readable/formatable data to pixel data that is suitable for display but not for further processing or extraction. This parameter change enables the system to maintain usability through proper display while preventing unauthorized access by making the data unusable for other purposes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If pixel data is transmitted instead of content data, then security is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovesecurityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the content rendering function from the cloud system and places it in the content driver running on the user device. This extraction allows pixel data to be generated locally without requiring complex secure transmission mechanisms, thereby improving security while managing device complexity through functional decomposition

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a local copy of the content rendering capability in the form of a content driver that generates pixel data. This copying approach eliminates the need for complex secure content transmission by generating the visual representation locally, thus improving security while keeping the system relatively simple through the use of a lightweight local application

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS11785094B2Secure content delivery computer system
Publication Date: 2023.10.10 PEARSON EDUCATION INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods for secure content delivery are disclosed herein. The system can include a content driver communicatingly connected with a user device via a layered protocol model or via a User Datagram Protocol (UDP). The content driver can generate a signal directing the creation of a secured partition on a bootable media device connected to a user device, identify content for delivery, and generate pixel data for the content. The content driver can send the pixel data to the user device, wherein the user device is configured to store the pixel data in the secured partition of the bootable media device. The content driver can receive a plurality of response inputs from the user device, wherein the response inputs are generated by a software application running on the bootable media device, generate a response based on the received response inputs, and provide the generated response to an evaluation module.