Home-Networking Gateway Prioritizes Interactive Traffic
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Solution Overview
Problem
In home networks, the process of downloading entertainment content often interferes with human interactive activities, such as email or browsing, due to shared communication pathways, leading to suboptimal user experiences and potential interruptions.
Innovation Solution
A home-networking gateway prioritizes human interactive requests over entertainment content downloads by determining the nature of incoming requests, adjusting transmission parameters, and using store-and-forward communication techniques to manage external communications, thereby minimizing interference and ensuring timely delivery of entertainment content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the external communications pathway is used to download entertainment content to the home network, then entertainment content delivery is enabled, but human interactive activities such as email or browsing are interfered with
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway dynamically adjusts the priority of different communication tasks based on real-time conditions. Human interactive requests are detected and automatically prioritized over entertainment content downloads, allowing the system to adapt its behavior to current user needs while maintaining both functions
Solution Approach 2:
The home-networking gateway acts as an intermediary between external communication pathways and internal devices. It monitors and manages communication requests, determining whether they are human interactive or entertainment-related, and controls the flow of data to ensure human interactive activities receive appropriate priority
2Use of energy by moving object
If the external communications pathway is shared between entertainment content download and human interactive activities, then bandwidth utilization is improved, but communication quality for both activities deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Different quality levels are applied to different types of communications based on their nature. Human interactive requests receive higher priority and better service quality, while entertainment content downloads operate with lower priority. This allows the system to maintain high bandwidth utilization while ensuring critical communications receive appropriate quality
3Speed
If entertainment content is downloaded in real-time over the external communications pathway, then content delivery speed is improved, but interference with other external communications increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary classification of communication requests to identify human interactive activities before they occur. By detecting these requests in advance, the gateway can preemptively adjust resource allocation and prioritize interactive communications, preventing interference before it impacts user experience
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques are provided for managing communications from an external computer system to a gateway device on a home network. Content is downloaded to the home network, stored on the home-networking gateway and then made available to a device on the home network that is capable of using the stored content. Additionally, a home-networking gateway manages communications between external computer systems and the home network to give priority to human interactive communications over the downloading of entertainment content for future use.