Context Data Tagging for Wireless Multimedia via Remote Extraction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wireless mobile communication devices face limitations in power, storage, and processing capabilities, which hinder the convenient use and organization of data, particularly in multimedia applications, despite their expanded utility beyond simple communication functions.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize user preference information to create context data tags for indexing data in wireless systems, allowing for automatic tagging of multimedia events and subsequent post-processing operations, which can be performed on remote devices with greater resources, thereby enhancing data management and usability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If wireless devices perform multiple jobs and generate multimedia data, then device functionality and utility are improved, but power consumption and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex data processing and tagging operations from the wireless device to a remote server or cloud-based system. The wireless device only captures multimedia data and transmits it, while the heavy lifting of analysis, tagging, and organization is performed remotely, thereby reducing local power consumption and processing requirements while maintaining enhanced functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a remote server or cloud-based system as an intermediary between the wireless device and the data management infrastructure. This intermediary handles the computationally intensive tasks of data analysis, context tag generation, and organization, allowing the wireless device to maintain versatility without bearing the full burden of processing power requirements.
2Ease of operation
If wireless devices organize and process multimedia data locally, then data management capability is improved, but storage and processing limitations are exceeded
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the data storage and complex processing functions from the wireless device to a remote server. The device captures and transmits multimedia data, but the actual storage, organization, and processing are performed remotely where unlimited storage capacity is available, thus improving data management capability without being constrained by local storage limitations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent moves the data storage and processing operations from the local device dimension to a remote cloud dimension. This dimensional shift allows the system to leverage virtually unlimited storage capacity and processing power available in the cloud infrastructure, effectively overcoming the physical storage and processing limitations of the wireless device.
3Productivity
If context tags are created without user preference information, then processing speed is improved, but tagging accuracy and user relevance deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent collects and stores user preference information in advance, before the actual tagging operation is needed. This preliminary action allows the system to quickly retrieve pre-established user preferences during the tagging process, maintaining high processing speed while ensuring that the generated tags accurately reflect user preferences and improve tagging accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where user preferences are continuously learned and refined based on user interactions with tagged data. The system analyzes user behavior patterns and adjusts tagging strategies accordingly, thereby improving tagging accuracy over time while maintaining efficient processing through automated preference-based tagging rules.
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AI summary
A Wireless mobile communication (WMC) device may be utilized to generate and/or maintain multimedia data files. Context data tags may be utilized to tag the generated multimedia data files to enable convenient identification of multimedia data files. Context data tags may comprise time/date stamps, subject, and/or location attribute. User preference information that is unique to the WMC device and/or a specific device user may be utilized to create context data tags for multimedia data files. The user preference information may be modified and/or updated. Modifications and/or updates of user preference information may be based on post-processing operations, biometric information, and/or self-learning techniques that may comprise operations performed on the multimedia data files. Post-processing operations may be performed on multimedia data files in the WMC device and/or a remote device. Tagged multimedia data files may be re-tagged based on modification to user preference information and/or post-processing operations.