Content Redirection Service Adapting Web Features for Target Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face challenges in seamlessly viewing and interacting with web content across different devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and TVs, due to limitations in display capabilities, network connectivity, and interactive features, leading to an inconsistent user experience.
Innovation Solution
An online service that allows users to redirect content from one device to another, optimizing it for the receiving device's capabilities by removing interactive features, adding virtual keyboards, and filtering out unsupported content formats, while enabling users to select specific features for forwarding, such as videos or entire web pages, and automatically initiating forwarding when the source device lacks necessary resources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content is forwarded from a device with full interactive features to another device, then the content can be viewed on different devices, but the interactive features may not be supported on the receiving device
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts unsupported interactive features from the original web content before forwarding to the receiving device. The system identifies which interactive elements (such as JavaScript-based features, specific input methods, or device-specific APIs) are not supported by the target device and removes them, leaving only the compatible portions of the content that can be reliably displayed and interacted with on the receiving device.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameters of the content to match the capabilities of the receiving device. This includes adjusting resolution, modifying interaction methods (e.g., converting touch-based interactions to remote-control-based interactions), and adapting formatting to suit different display and processing capabilities, thereby maintaining reliability across diverse devices.
2Adaptability or versatility
If interactive features are removed from forwarded content, then compatibility with receiving devices is improved, but the user experience becomes less interactive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system (the content forwarding service) that translates interaction methods between different devices. When content is forwarded, the system mediates the interaction by converting input methods appropriate for the source device into equivalent interactions suitable for the receiving device, such as converting keyboard input to remote control input or touch gestures to button presses, thereby preserving ease of operation across different device types.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes the content dynamically adaptable to the receiving device's capabilities. Rather than statically removing all interactive features, the system dynamically adjusts which interactive elements are preserved, modified, or removed based on the specific capabilities of the target device, ensuring optimal user experience for each device type while maintaining compatibility.
3Loss of information
If the entire web page is forwarded to another device, then all content is available, but unsupported features may cause errors or poor performance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the web content into distinct components (such as video elements, interactive menus, text content, images) and evaluates each segment for compatibility with the receiving device. The system then selectively forwards only those segments that are supported by the target device, ensuring content completeness for supported features while excluding unsupported features that would cause errors or poor performance.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts and removes unsupported features from the complete web content before forwarding to the receiving device. The system identifies problematic elements (such as device-specific APIs, unsupported video formats, or complex JavaScript features) and extracts them from the content stream, forwarding only the compatible portions to ensure reliable operation while preserving as much of the original content as possible.
4Ease of operation
If content is optimized for a specific device type, then the viewing experience is enhanced, but the content may not be suitable for other device types
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the content dynamically adaptable to different device types through a single forwarding mechanism. When content is requested, the system dynamically determines the capabilities of the target device and optimizes the content delivery accordingly, adjusting resolution, interaction methods, and feature sets in real-time. This allows the same content source to be optimally experienced across multiple device types without creating separate optimized versions for each device.
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AI summary
A system and method are described for allowing users to forward a media content experience, such as an Internet site, to another computing device. The system may allow the user to select individual portions and elements of the site for forwarding, to customize the level and type of experience being forwarded. The selection of portions and elements may be made based on the capabilities of the other computing device, and the forwarding may be simultaneously made to multiple other devices, each with potentially different combinations of the portions and elements of the site. In some embodiments, a text message link service may be offered by a content ingestion computing device, whereby a user may simply text an address of a site to be forwarded, and in response the user may receive a text message containing a link to the content ingestion computing device with a parameter identifying the site to be forwarded.