Immutable Content Ledger for Edge Cache Distribution Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content distribution systems in mobile environments, such as airplanes, trains, and buses, face challenges with variable connectivity and low bandwidth, failing to meet consumer expectations for network access and content streaming.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a Content Delivery Network Extender (CDNE) with intelligent caching techniques, strategic high-speed access points, and a Content Service Provider (CSP) management system to pre-load content at predictable locations, using capacitors and CDN nodes to manage IP subnetworks and distribute content efficiently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If content distribution relies on traditional network infrastructure in mobile environments, then system complexity is reduced, but content delivery speed and reliability deteriorate due to variable connectivity and low bandwidth
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-loading content onto capacitors at predictable locations (airports, train stations, bus terminals) before users need it. This allows content to be cached locally in mobile environments, enabling fast and reliable delivery without depending on variable network connectivity during transit.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces capacitors as intermediary devices between traditional network infrastructure and mobile users. These capacitors act as local content distribution nodes that mediate content delivery, bridging the gap between high-speed network connections at fixed locations and low-bandwidth mobile environments during transit.
2Reliability
If content is pre-loaded at strategic locations using capacitors, then content delivery reliability improves in mobile environments, but device complexity and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by designing capacitors as multi-functional devices that serve both as content storage repositories and as local distribution nodes. These capacitors can store multiple types of content (video, audio, data) and serve various users across different mobile environments (airplanes, trains, buses), reducing the need for separate specialized infrastructure for each scenario.
3Speed
If traditional network infrastructure is used without caching, then infrastructure cost is minimized, but content delivery speed deteriorates in mobile environments with low bandwidth
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements local quality by deploying capacitors at specific strategic locations where mobile users frequently connect (airports, train stations, bus terminals). Rather than uniformly distributing infrastructure everywhere, the system concentrates content caching capabilities at these high-traffic transition points, optimizing content delivery speed where it is most needed while minimizing overall infrastructure deployment.
Data Source
AI summary
A system comprising a plurality of peer caches associated with a corresponding plurality of content owners; shared ledger logic having a channel for each content owner of a plurality of content owners, the shared ledger logic to maintain a shared ledger data structure and to perform the operations of: in response to receipt of a first content title, responsively recording a first ledger entry for the first content title which is visible to a first content owner which owns the first content title; receiving an encryption key from the content owner, wherein the first content title comprises an encrypted content title encrypted with the key; storing the encrypted content title on one or more network storage devices; and when the encrypted content title reaches an edge cache, using the key to decrypt the encrypted content title and updating the first ledger entry to identify the edge cache.