Coordinating Device for Synchronized Multi-User Video Editing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current solutions fail to enable simultaneous and synchronized editing of digital data, such as video, audio, or text, across multiple computers over a network, leading to inefficiencies and lack of coordinated control during shared experiences.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that coordinates commands from multiple user computers to control and edit shared digital data, using a coordinating device to merge, prioritize, and execute commands uniformly across all connected computers, allowing for simultaneous editing and synchronization of digital content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If video data is transmitted from a server to multiple computers for sharing, then the video content can be displayed on multiple devices, but the synchronization between devices deteriorates when users perform independent editing actions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a coordinating device as an intermediary between multiple user computers. This coordinator receives commands from all users, processes them centrally, and distributes synchronized commands back to all participants, ensuring that editing actions remain synchronized across all devices while maintaining the versatility of multi-user video sharing
2Ease of operation
If multiple users can independently control and edit shared digital data, then the collaborative editing capability is improved, but the data consistency deteriorates due to conflicting commands
Solution Approach 1:
The coordinating device serves as a mediator that receives commands from multiple users, processes them centrally to detect and resolve conflicts, and ensures that only consistent commands are executed across all devices. This maintains data consistency while preserving the ease of collaborative editing operations
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the coordinating device monitors commands from all users, provides feedback on command acceptance or rejection, and ensures that all devices receive consistent update information. This feedback loop maintains data consistency across the distributed system
3Device complexity
If a central server transmits video data to multiple computers, then the system complexity is reduced compared to peer-to-peer sharing, but the coordination capability for simultaneous edits deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the system into distinct functional components: a central server for video data storage and distribution, and a coordinating device for command processing. This segmentation allows the server to handle data transmission simply while the coordinator handles the complex task of simultaneous edit coordination, resolving the contradiction between system simplicity and coordination capability
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AI summary
A system and method for coordinating multiple-user edits of shared digital data. A coordinating device may receive commands to edit shared digital data from multiple independently operated user computers. The coordinating device may determine that two or more of the commands from respective user computers are mutually exclusive, redundant or otherwise conflict. The coordinating device may incorporate one of the multiple commands into a global command queue and may annul the other(s). The coordinating device may transmit the global commands to all user computers to be executed locally for implemented the same shared digital data thereon.