Content Subscription List Management via Intermediary Server
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content subscription systems restrict content sharing between users if they do not have the same applications installed, limiting the ability to share content across different electronic devices.
Innovation Solution
A content providing system and method that allows users to share content by communicating with a content providing server, which manages content subscription lists and delivers content to devices with or without the content subscription application installed, using various communication methods such as emails, SMS, or IM.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content sharing is restricted to users with the same application installed, then application control and content management are simplified, but content sharing capability is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a content providing server as an intermediary between users. The server manages content subscription lists and handles content delivery, allowing users to share content without needing the same application installed. The server acts as a mediator that coordinates content sharing between different devices and applications, resolving the contradiction between expanded sharing capability and system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The content providing server provides universal content delivery functionality to multiple users regardless of their specific applications. The system allows content to be shared through various communication methods (email, SMS, IM) and supports multiple user scenarios, making the content sharing mechanism universally applicable across different devices and applications without requiring each user to have identical software.
2Productivity
If content subscription lists are managed individually for each user, then content management precision is improved, but service efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges individual user content subscription lists into a centralized content providing server. Instead of managing subscriptions separately for each user, the server consolidates content subscription information from multiple users, identifies common content, and manages delivery centrally. This combining approach improves service efficiency by reducing redundant operations while maintaining accurate tracking of each user's subscriptions through the centralized system.
3Ease of operation
If content delivery requires application installation, then content delivery reliability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The content providing server serves as an intermediary that ensures reliable content delivery without requiring recipients to have specific applications installed. The server manages content formatting, delivery routing, and confirmation, maintaining delivery reliability through centralized control while improving ease of operation by allowing content to be received through standard communication methods available on any device.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication module configured to communicate with an external device, an input module configured to receive an input, and a processor configured to send a request for following a second user to a content providing server, if the request for following the second user is received from a first user and to receive at least one content, to which the second user subscribes, from the content providing server.