Centralized Server for Digital Frame Contextual Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital display systems, such as those in hotels, lack centralized management capabilities for large-scale deployment of digital frames, limiting dynamic and contextual multimedia content dissemination across multiple locations.
Innovation Solution
A process where digital frames periodically transmit requests to a centralized server with contextual information, receiving responses that include media content and actions, allowing for dynamic slideshow updates and control, utilizing sensors for contextual data and enabling remote management and interaction with mobile devices through QR codes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If digital frames use MRSS or DNLA standards for remote display, then they can display multimedia content, but centralized management of large numbers of frames is not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized server as an intermediary between content sources and digital frames. The server receives requests from frames, manages content distribution, and coordinates updates across the network. This mediator enables centralized control without requiring complex peer-to-peer management between frames and content sources.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments functionality by separating the digital frames (display only) from the centralized server (management and content control). This segmentation allows frames to remain simple devices while the server handles complex management tasks, resolving the contradiction between display capability and management complexity.
2Area of stationary object
If digital frames are deployed in large numbers across multiple locations, then content dissemination coverage is improved, but management and control becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized server provides universal management capabilities that work across all digital frames regardless of location. A single server can manage frames in multiple hotels or locations, providing unified content distribution, update management, and control interfaces. This multi-functional server resolves the difficulty of managing geographically dispersed frames.
3Adaptability or versatility
If contextual information is collected and personalized content is provided, then user experience is enhanced, but system complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex data processing and contextual analysis functions from the digital frames and places them on the centralized server. Frames simply collect basic contextual data (location, time) and display content, while the server performs sophisticated personalized content generation based on collected data. This extraction reduces frame complexity while enabling personalization.
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AI summary
A process for controlling the displaying of media on a display device, such as a digital frame (200), under the control of a centralized server (150) accessing a contextual database (160). The process is based on the periodical transmission by said frame (200) of a request comprising an identifier of said display device and also comprising headers defining contextual information reported to said server 150) and stored within said contextual database (160), said server responding to said request by means of a response defining the media to display, accompanied by headers defining one or more actions to be executed by said display device (200).