Hierarchical Address Registers for Content Sorting

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems lack a unified platform for accessing and organizing content sources with hierarchical channel sorting features using computing division channels and network-based tools, failing to provide users with dynamic designation environments for sorting and accessing content effectively.

Innovation Solution

A content delivery platform with a dynamic designation environment that utilizes a network-connected system of computer systems to manage and sort content sources using unique addresses, allowing users to access streaming content from multiple sources through hierarchical sorting and address signifiers, enabling efficient content discovery and organization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a unified platform for accessing and organizing content sources with hierarchical channel sorting features is implemented, then content organization and accessibility are improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent accessibilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments content sources into hierarchical categories using address registers with different levels (e.g., network level, domain level, path level). Each level can be independently managed and accessed, allowing complex content organization to be broken down into manageable segments that users can navigate through hierarchical sorting features.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements nested address registers where lower-level registers are contained within or associated with higher-level registers. For example, path-level address registers are nested within domain-level registers, which are nested within network-level registers. This nesting allows the system to handle complex hierarchical relationships while maintaining a unified platform for access.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

2Productivity

If hierarchical sorting features are added to content delivery platforms, then content discovery efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent discovery efficiencyVSAvoidplatform complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides dynamic hierarchical sorting features that can be adjusted and reconfigured based on user needs. The address registers can be dynamically created, modified, and deleted, allowing the platform to adapt to changing content organization requirements while maintaining efficient discovery capabilities through programmable sorting algorithms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces intermediary address register structures that mediate between the content delivery system and the user interface. These intermediary registers act as a buffer, translating complex hierarchical content relationships into manageable sorting categories that improve discovery efficiency without directly exposing the full complexity of the underlying content organization system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS9946976B2System for enabling channel designation differentiation for hierarchically organizing and accessing address registers with address signifiers and elements
Publication Date: 2018.04.17 STEDMAN COREY FRANCIS
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AI summary

A system of multiple computer systems operating over a network that creates addresses using elements received by users or determined by administrators or supplied by the system based on computer system data, content data, and user data, distinguishes the addresses using address signifiers, organizes the addresses hierarchically, provides access to users by enabling entries that manipulate element inclusion and signifier inclusion, amends entries by adjusting signifier type, and approximates entires with element matching.