Content Processing Apparatus Segmentation for Storage Security
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Solution Overview
Problem
Devices face storage limitations and security vulnerabilities when using network storage services, particularly due to accessibility delays, bandwidth limitations, and risks of copyright infringement.
Innovation Solution
A content processing apparatus that divides content into important and subordinate data units, storing essential units locally and non-essential units externally, allowing for secure and efficient storage and retrieval while preventing unauthorized access and copyright infringement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If content is stored in network storage service, then storage capacity is expanded, but accessibility speed deteriorates due to network bandwidth limitations
Solution Approach 1:
The content is divided into multiple data units and stored across different storage locations (internal storage, external storage, and network storage). This segmentation allows the system to utilize both local fast access for critical data and remote storage for capacity expansion, resolving the contradiction between storage capacity and accessibility speed.
2Quantity of substance
If content is stored in network storage service, then storage capacity is expanded, but security deteriorates due to potential copyright infringement
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting content into multiple data units and distributing them across different storage locations, the system ensures that no single location contains the complete content. This makes it difficult for unauthorized users to access or distribute the full content, thereby maintaining security while utilizing network storage capacity.
Solution Approach 2:
The content processing apparatus acts as an intermediary that manages the distributed data units. It controls access and reconstruction of the original content, preventing direct access to complete content files and thereby reducing security risks associated with network storage.
3Speed
If all data units are stored locally, then accessibility speed is improved, but storage capacity is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments content into multiple data units and strategically stores them across internal and external storage media. This allows the device to maintain fast local access for frequently used or critical data units while offloading less critical units to external or network storage, thus balancing accessibility speed and storage capacity.
4Quantity of substance
If content is divided and stored externally, then storage capacity is expanded, but control over content deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The content processing apparatus maintains control by implementing a feedback mechanism that tracks the location and status of distributed data units. This allows the system to manage and reconstruct content from external storage locations while maintaining centralized control, thus expanding storage capacity without losing content control.
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AI summary
A content processing apparatus and content processing method are provided. The content processing apparatus includes: a communication interface configured to communicate with an external storage; a controller configured to transmit, to the external storage through the communication interface, a first data component from among a plurality of data components constituting a content item; and an internal storage configured to store a second data component from among data components of the plurality of data components that are not transmitted to the external storage, wherein the first data component transmitted to the external storage does not allow the content item to be reproduced normally without the second data component.