Generic Content Management Interface for Protocol Translation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing number of devices and OEMs requires new communication protocols and formatting styles for data transmission, leading to overhead costs and complexity when porting data across different devices and storage providers supported on various platforms.
Innovation Solution
A Generic Content Management Interface (GCMI) that receives content management requests, fetches device specifications, selects appropriate storage providers, converts requests to vendor-specific formats, and sends them to the selected providers, enabling data transmission using a generic protocol across multiple devices and storage providers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If device-specific communication protocols are used for each device and OEM, then compatibility with specific storage providers is achieved, but system complexity and porting costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a content management interface that acts as an intermediary between devices and storage providers. This interface translates device-specific communication protocols into a standardized protocol, eliminating the need for each device to implement multiple vendor-specific protocols while maintaining compatibility with diverse storage providers.
Solution Approach 2:
The content management interface implements a universal communication layer that handles multiple device types and storage providers through a single standardized protocol. This allows the system to support diverse devices and storage providers without requiring device-specific protocol implementations, reducing overall system complexity.
2Productivity
If platform-specific communication protocols are used, then device functionality is optimized, but data porting costs and overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The content management interface serves as a mediator that handles protocol translation and data format conversion. This eliminates the need for repeated data porting between different platform-specific protocols, reducing the overhead and resource consumption associated with data transmission across diverse devices and storage providers.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary protocol translation and data formatting at the content management interface before data transmission. This preliminary action ensures that data is properly formatted for the target storage provider in advance, eliminating the need for repeated conversion and porting operations during data transmission.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple vendor-specific protocols are supported, then device compatibility is improved, but the cost of porting data across platforms increases
Solution Approach 1:
The content management interface acts as a central mediator that translates between device-specific protocols and storage provider protocols. This single intermediary point handles all protocol conversions, making the system adaptable to multiple devices and storage providers while maintaining consistent porting costs through centralized protocol management.
Solution Approach 2:
The content management interface implements a universal protocol layer that provides adaptability to multiple devices and storage providers through a single standardized interface. This universal approach reduces porting costs by eliminating the need for multiple vendor-specific protocol implementations across different device platforms.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for providing a unified solution to transmit data from one or more devices/OEMs to one or more storage providers. The system analyzes the metadata of a device, which is sending the request, and identifies an appropriate storage provider for storing the data. Further, the system can convert device specific data format and an API set used for transmitting the data to a storage specific data format and a generic API set. The generic API set can be used to transmit data to one or more storage providers. Additionally, the system supports an extendable interface to initiate a request from the device.