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

VSEngineering 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

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestorage capacityVSAvoidaccessibility speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSSpeed

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.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Quantity of substance

If content is stored in network storage service, then storage capacity is expanded, but security deteriorates due to potential copyright infringement

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestorage capacityVSAvoidsecurity risk
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSObject-affected harmful factors

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.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

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.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Speed

If all data units are stored locally, then accessibility speed is improved, but storage capacity is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccessibility speedVSAvoidstorage capacity
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSQuantity of substance

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.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

4Quantity of substance

If content is divided and stored externally, then storage capacity is expanded, but control over content deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestorage capacityVSAvoidcontent control
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

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.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP3007449B1Protected storage of content with two complementary memories
Publication Date: 2021.11.10 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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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.