Content Management Server for Seamless Data Stream Playback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Content providers face challenges in efficiently managing and delivering content streams across multiple communication devices, requiring complex infrastructure and resources to adapt encoding and protocols, and customers experience inconvenience due to the need to re-authenticate and manage multiple user accounts.
Innovation Solution
A content management server is introduced to store and adapt data streams for multiple communication devices, allowing seamless continuation of content playback across different devices by creating and storing copies of the data stream, reducing the burden on provider servers and enhancing user convenience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If content is delivered as a data stream adapted to the communication device used, then the content can be efficiently delivered to the device, but the provider server must maintain multiple format versions of the same content for different devices, increasing infrastructure complexity and costs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the content delivery function by introducing an intermediary server that separates the provider server from the communication devices. The provider server only needs to deliver content in one format, while the intermediary server handles format conversion and adaptation to different device requirements, thus reducing the infrastructure complexity at the provider server while maintaining delivery efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary server as a mediator between the provider server and communication devices. This intermediary server receives data streams from the provider server, adapts them to different encodings and protocols, and delivers them to appropriate devices. This eliminates the need for the provider server to maintain multiple format versions, reducing infrastructure complexity while preserving efficient content delivery.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a customer interrupts reception of a data stream and continues with another communication device, then the customer gains device flexibility, but the provider must select or create a new adapted data stream for the other device, increasing time and effort
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by having the intermediary server pre-process and adapt data streams for multiple communication devices. When a customer interrupts reception on one device and continues on another, the intermediary server can quickly switch to a pre-adapted data stream for the new device, eliminating the need to select or create a new adapted data stream in real-time, thus reducing time loss while maintaining device flexibility.
3Reliability
If multiple user accounts and authentication are required for different communication devices, then content security is maintained, but customer convenience is reduced due to repeated login requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by implementing a single user account system that works across multiple communication devices. The intermediary server manages authentication centrally, allowing customers to access their content on any registered device without repeated login procedures. This maintains content security through centralized authentication while significantly improving user convenience, eliminating the need for multiple user accounts.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a method and a system for transmitting content as a data stream from a provider server (2) of a content provider to one of several communication devices (6.1,...6.n) of a customer via at least one telecommunications network, wherein the provider server (2) sends a data stream of the selected content adapted to the communication device (6.1) used by the customer via the at least one telecommunications network, the reception by the communication device (6.1) used is interrupted and continued at a later time with the same (6.1) or another (6.2,...6.n) of the several communication devices (6.1,...6.n), wherein the communication device (6.1) used by the customer receives the data stream indirectly via a connection in the communication path between the provider server (2) and the communication device (6.1).1) receives the content management server (1) located in the public Internet, and the content management server (1) creates and stores at least one copy of the selected content as a data stream in the event of an interruption of reception by the communication device (6.1) used, which is adapted to at least one other communication device (6.2,....6.n) usable by the customer of the several communication devices (6.1,....6.n).