Secure Content Delivery Release Timing for Simultaneous Decryption
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods struggle to achieve simultaneous secure delivery of decrypted electronically stored content to multiple client computers located remotely due to geographical and computing capability variations, leading to discrepancies in delivery times.
Innovation Solution
A method, system, and software that utilize operating variable information to calculate a release time for each client computer to initiate decryption, accounting for network latency, computing capabilities, and other latencies, ensuring simultaneous secure delivery across a network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If content is transmitted to multiple client computers simultaneously, then delivery speed is improved, but delivery time discrepancy increases due to network latency and geographical variations
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by calculating and distributing individual release times to each client computer before actual content delivery. Each client is given a customized release time that accounts for their specific network latency and processing capabilities, allowing them to prepare and decrypt content at the optimal moment to ensure simultaneous delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies local quality by tailoring the release time parameters to each individual client computer's specific characteristics. Instead of a uniform release time for all clients, the system adjusts the release time based on each client's network conditions, geographical location, and processing capabilities, ensuring optimized performance for each local system.
2Measurement precision
If individual release times are calculated for each client computer, then delivery time precision is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by having each client computer autonomously receive and apply its customized release time. The client computers independently calculate when to begin decryption based on their received release time, without requiring continuous coordination or complex centralized control during the actual content delivery process.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses parameter changes by adjusting the release time parameter for each client computer based on their specific network latency and processing characteristics. The content delivery system modifies this single critical parameter to optimize delivery for each client, avoiding the need for complex multi-parameter coordination systems.
3Reliability
If content is encrypted and decrypted at client computers, then security is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by having client computers begin decryption at their individually calculated release times rather than waiting for the content to be fully transmitted. This allows decryption to start in advance, overlapping with the content transmission process and reducing total processing time while maintaining security through encrypted transmission.
Solution Approach 2:
The system ensures continuity of useful action by making decryption an ongoing process that starts at the release time and continues as content is received. Instead of discrete encrypt-then-decrypt cycles, the system maintains continuous decryption operation throughout the content transmission, maximizing efficiency and minimizing idle processing time.
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AI summary
A computer-implemented method (and associated system and software) of providing simultaneous secure delivery of decrypted electronically stored content to remotely located client computers via an electronic communication network. The method includes acquiring operating variable information about client computers; calculating a release time when decryption is enabled for each client computer to start decrypting a first byte of a set of encrypted electronic content units obtained by such client computer; and transmitting computer-executable instructions to begin decryption at the release time so that each client computer is securely delivered decrypted content simultaneously.