Content Sharing System with OS Conversion Gateway

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing information handling systems face challenges in coordinating and sharing content across devices with disparate hardware requirements, software architectures, and operating systems, leading to difficulties in seamless collaboration and data aggregation.

Innovation Solution

A content sharing system that employs a thin computing architecture with mixed OS capabilities, enabling execution locally or via partial remote virtual computing and memory resources, and utilizes OS conversion protocols to normalize communication and file transfer across different systems, allowing for seamless navigation, aggregation, and organization of files from various devices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a content sharing system coordinates content across devices with disparate hardware and software, then collaboration capability is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecollaboration capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a gateway as an intermediary component that mediates between devices with different operating systems and the content sharing system. The gateway performs OS conversion, translating between different OS protocols and the unified content sharing protocol, thereby enabling cross-platform collaboration without requiring direct complex integration between all device pairs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system is segmented into distinct functional components: content sharing system, gateway, and remote devices. Each component handles specific tasks independently - the content sharing system manages file aggregation and sharing logic, while gateways handle OS conversion and protocol translation. This segmentation reduces overall system complexity by dividing the coordination burden across multiple specialized components.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If OS conversion protocols are used to normalize communication across different systems, then compatibility is improved, but processing overhead increases

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovecompatibilityVSAvoidprocessing overhead

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The gateway performs OS conversion and protocol normalization in advance before content transfer operations. By pre-establishing compatibility layers and converting protocols beforehand, the system avoids repeated conversion overhead during actual file sharing operations, reducing real-time processing delays.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Device complexity

If a thin computing architecture with remote virtual resources is used, then local resource requirements are reduced, but network dependency increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelocal resource requirementsVSAvoidnetwork dependency

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines local thin client functionality with remote virtual computing resources. The thin client device performs basic user interaction and displays content, while heavy processing and storage operations are performed remotely on virtual machines. This merging allows the system to leverage both local responsiveness and remote computational power, reducing the need for expensive local hardware while maintaining operational reliability through distributed processing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS10841317B2Processing content sharing system data from a plurality of remotely connected computing devices in physical or virtualized space

Publication Date: 2020.11.17 DELL PROD LP

AI summary

An information handling system includes a processor that executes instructions for a content sharing system that has mixed operating system capabilities. The processor detects pre-paired wireless connectivity for at least one of a plurality of remotely connected computing devices and implements a role-based policy to partially limit content sharing system operation, the operation is based on a role classification. The processor also auto-initiates navigation accessibility within authorized remotely connected computing devices via the content sharing system.