Digital Content Fragmentation for Social Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital content distribution systems do not effectively allow for the division and sharing of digital content among users with social relationships, leading to inefficient use of network resources and potential service terminations due to lack of sharing mechanisms.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that divide digital content into fragments based on a determined division unit, allowing primary users to have direct or indirect ownership and access, enabling sharing between users with social relationships through a processor-based system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If digital content is distributed as complete files to each user, then each user has full access to the content, but network resources are inefficiently used and service termination risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides digital content into multiple fragments and distributes them separately to different users. Instead of giving complete files to each user, the system segments content into parts (e.g., Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc.) and allocates them based on user profiles, social relationships, and content usage patterns. This segmentation reduces redundant network transmission while maintaining service reliability through distributed storage.
2Loss of energy
If digital content is divided into fragments and distributed, then network resource efficiency improves and user costs reduce, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a content management server as an intermediary that handles the complexity of fragment management, ownership tracking, and reassembly coordination. This centralised mediator manages the distributed fragments without requiring complex peer-to-peer coordination between users, thus reducing overall system complexity while maintaining network efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The content management server performs multiple functions including fragment distribution, ownership management, access control, and content reassembly coordination. This multi-functional approach consolidates complexity into a single system component rather than distributing it across multiple specialized components.
3Productivity
If digital content is shared among users with social relationships, then user satisfaction and sales improve, but access control and ownership management become more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements automated ownership determination based on user profiles, social relationship data, and content fragment ownership records. The system automatically identifies which users should receive which fragments without manual intervention, reducing the complexity of managing shared ownership among socially connected users while enabling efficient content distribution.
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AI summary
Provided are methods and systems for providing digital content based on a social relationship. Computer-implemented methods include dividing digital content into a plurality of fragments based on a determined division unit of the digital content, providing direct ownership of a first one of the plurality of fragments to a primary user in response to a request from the user, providing indirect ownership of a second one of the plurality of fragments to the primary user based on at least one secondary user having a social relationship with the primary user and the at least one secondary user having direct ownership of the second one of the plurality of fragments, and providing access to the digital content based on a set of fragments of the plurality of fragments that the primary user has direct ownership or indirect ownership of.