Content Playback Data Purchase Control in Information Terminals
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing data traffic management systems, such as Patent Literature 1, do not consider the amount of data required to complete content playback, leading to unnecessary additional data purchases when most of the content has already been viewed, placing a burden on users.
Innovation Solution
An information processing terminal with a communication data amount management unit that manages high-speed communication line data usage and a display control unit that displays necessary information for additional data purchase when the remaining amount is insufficient, allowing users to continue viewing high-quality content without unnecessary burden.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the system automatically purchases additional data when the residual data amount satisfies a predetermined purchase condition, then the user can continue viewing high-quality content, but unnecessary data purchases occur when most content has been played
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary assessment of the remaining content playback time and data requirements before triggering additional data purchase. By calculating whether the remaining content can be completed with residual data, the system avoids unnecessary purchases while ensuring continuous viewing when actually needed
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors playback progress, residual data amount, and calculates real-time data requirements for remaining content. This feedback mechanism allows dynamic adjustment of purchase decisions based on actual content consumption status, preventing both unnecessary purchases and interruptions
2Loss of substance
If the system monitors and manages data usage in real-time during content playback, then unnecessary purchases are avoided, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The communication data amount management unit performs multiple functions: monitoring data usage, calculating remaining content data requirements, assessing purchase necessity, and executing purchases. By consolidating these functions into a single multi-functional unit, the system reduces overall complexity while achieving optimization
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically performs data usage monitoring, calculation, and purchase execution without requiring user intervention. The communication data amount management unit independently assesses whether additional data is needed and executes purchases autonomously based on predetermined conditions, simplifying the user interface while maintaining sophisticated management
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing terminal allowing a user to view a content stored in an external server via contracted communication lines comprises a communication data amount management unit configured to manage an amount of data communicated via a high-speed communication line of the communication lines, and a display control unit configured to execute display control, and in a case where there is a possibility that an amount of data necessary for viewing of the content is about to exceed an amount of data remaining within a contracted amount of data, the communication data amount management unit calculates, as a purchase price, a price to additionally purchase a predetermined amount of data of the high-speed communication line based on a predetermined condition, and the display control unit displays the calculated purchase price.