Dynamic Addressing for Mobile-to-Multi-Device Real-Time Streaming

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current technologies do not effectively enable real-time streaming of multimedia content from a mobile device to another mobile device or an output device, such as a television, allowing users to share live events in real-time across different locations.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of a system that allows users to record and stream real-time content from a mobile device, providing a dynamic content address for access by other devices, enabling concurrent streaming to multiple users and output devices via wired or wireless connections, using components like HDMI dongles for display on larger screens.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If real-time streaming is implemented from mobile device to multiple devices, then content sharing capability is improved, but network bandwidth consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent sharing capabilityVSAvoidnetwork bandwidth consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the streaming content into multiple simultaneous streams, each directed to a different receiving device. The content providing device divides the encoded content into separate data flows that can be transmitted concurrently over the network to multiple recipients without requiring excessive bandwidth from any single connection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a content addressing component and dynamic content address system as intermediaries between the content providing device and receiving devices. This mediator layer manages the distribution efficiently by routing content through optimized network paths and handling device registration, thereby reducing overall network bandwidth consumption while enabling versatile content sharing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If dynamic content addressing is implemented for mobile streaming, then device accessibility is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedevice accessibilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a self-service mechanism where receiving devices automatically register themselves with the content providing device by requesting dynamic content addresses. The system autonomously generates and distributes content addresses without requiring manual configuration or complex user intervention, thereby improving device accessibility while keeping the system architecture relatively simple.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing the content addressing infrastructure and device registration mechanisms before actual content streaming begins. The dynamic content address system is prepared in advance, allowing devices to quickly access content without real-time configuration complexity, thus improving accessibility while managing system complexity through advance setup.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If concurrent streaming to multiple users is enabled, then user experience is improved, but processing load increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemulti-user streaming capabilityVSAvoidprocessing load

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSPower

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the content delivery process into separate concurrent streams for each user, allowing the processing load to be distributed across multiple network connections rather than handling all user requests through a single processing bottleneck. This enables multi-user streaming capability while managing processing load through parallelized delivery.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges the content encoding process with the distribution mechanism, where content is encoded once and then simultaneously distributed to multiple users through the dynamic content address system. This combining of encoding and distribution functions reduces redundant processing and enables efficient multi-user streaming with optimized processing load.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS9537921B2Mobile-to-mobile streaming of real-time content for presentation by an output device

Publication Date: 2017.01.03 VERIZON PATENT & LICENSING INC

AI summary

A content providing device may receive an indication to stream real-time content. The real-time content may include content captured by the content providing device. The content providing device may identify a dynamic content address, associated with the content providing device, to be used by a content receiving device to access the real-time content. The dynamic content address may identify an address of the content providing device from which the real-time content is to be streamed. The content providing device may provide the dynamic content address. The content providing device may receive, from the content receiving device, a request to access the real-time content, via the dynamic content address, based on providing the dynamic content address. The content providing device may stream the real-time content to the content receiving device, using the dynamic content address, based on receiving the request.