Digital Environment Replication via Segmented Data Records

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current digital environment replication technologies only allow users to replay and review audiovisual recordings, lacking the ability to recreate the full digital environment experience, including interactions and operations.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising a processor and memory that generates and stores a digital record of a digital environment, allowing for the replication of the environment by replaying the recorded interactions and operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If only audiovisual recordings are used to replay digital environments, then the recording process is simple, but the replication fidelity and user experience are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereplication fidelityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the digital environment into multiple independent components: audiovisual data, user interaction data, digital object state data, and environmental context data. Each component is recorded separately using different data capture mechanisms, allowing high-fidelity replication without requiring a monolithic complex system. The segmentation enables selective reconstruction of environment aspects based on user needs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a digital twin as an intermediary representation that mediates between the original digital environment and the replay system. The digital twin captures and stores the state of digital objects, user interactions, and environmental conditions, serving as a faithful intermediary that enables accurate replication without requiring direct access to the original environment's complex infrastructure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of information

If detailed digital records including interactions and operations are captured, then the replication experience is enhanced, but the data storage and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoiddata volume
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential and relevant data elements from the digital environment, such as user interaction events, digital object state changes, and key environmental parameters. By taking out only the necessary information rather than recording all raw data, the system achieves high information completeness while maintaining manageable data volumes suitable for efficient storage and processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements selective recording by capturing detailed interaction data only when significant events occur, rather than continuously recording all user actions. This partial action approach ensures that critical information is preserved for accurate replication while avoiding the data overload that would result from exhaustive continuous recording of all environmental parameters.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS12212886B2Replicating a digital environment
Publication Date: 2025.01.28 LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD
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AI summary

Apparatus, methods, and computer program products that can replicate a digital environment are disclosed. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor to generate a digital record of a digital environment occurring at an original time in which the digital record includes a set of happenings that occurred in the digital environment at the original time. The code is further executable by the processor to store the digital record for replication of the digital environment. Methods and computer program products that include and/or perform the operations and/or functions of the apparatus are also disclosed.