Cross-Device Content Streaming via Metadata Synchronization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Content streaming services on personal electronic devices and vehicles are not unified, requiring separate user identification and limiting seamless synchronization of content across different platforms.
Innovation Solution
A system and device that synchronize content streaming services by using first and second communication modules to exchange metadata and request content from a content providing server, allowing seamless streaming between devices with different platforms and memory access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If separate user identification information is used for personal electronic devices and vehicles, then each device can independently access content services, but content synchronization between devices becomes impossible
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple user identification information from different devices into a single unified user profile on the server. When a user registers their personal device and vehicle, both devices' user IDs are linked to the same server account, enabling content synchronization across devices while maintaining independent access capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The server is designed to handle multiple user identification information types universally. It can process user IDs from personal electronic devices, vehicles, and other platforms, unifying them under a single content delivery framework that works across all device types and platforms.
2Loss of information
If unified user identification is implemented across all devices, then content synchronization becomes possible, but device-specific platform compatibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as an intermediary between diverse devices and the content delivery system. It receives user identification information from various platforms, unifies them, and manages content delivery without requiring the devices themselves to be platform-compatible. The server mediates the synchronization process, allowing personal devices and vehicles with different platforms to work together.
3Reliability
If manual setup of user identification information is required for each device, then platform-specific security is maintained, but user convenience and ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary registration where users register their personal device first, and the system automatically prepares for subsequent vehicle registration. The server pre-establishes the user profile and enables automatic linking of additional devices, reducing the manual setup burden while maintaining security through the unified authentication framework.
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AI summary
An embodiment content streaming device implemented to seamlessly stream content being streamed from a second content streaming device includes a first communication module configured to receive first metadata for the content being streamed by the second content streaming device, a second communication module configured to communicate with a content providing server, and a processor configured to request content corresponding to the first metadata from the content providing server and, in response to receiving content from the content providing server in response to the request, stream the received content.