Extended Home Network Management Gateway
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current solutions for managing digital content consumption services in extended home networks are vertical and specific to individual providers, lacking centralized control, which complicates access rights and quality of service, especially when users access services outside their primary residence.
Innovation Solution
A device and method for managing an extended home network that centralizes access rights and application execution, allowing users to configure remote access to multi-screen services across various equipment in their extended network, including secondary networks, while ensuring security and quality of service through operator-controlled management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If digital content consumption services are managed through multiple vertical provider-specific solutions, then service availability across different platforms is improved, but access rights management and quality of service control become complex and difficult to centralized manage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a gateway device as an intermediary between the user terminal and multiple content consumption services. This gateway centralizes the management of access rights and quality of service parameters, mediating between the user's subscription information and the various service providers. The gateway stores subscription data, manages access rights centrally, and controls quality of service parameters, thereby simplifying what would otherwise be complex distributed management across multiple vertical platforms.
2Ease of operation
If users access digital content services outside their primary residence through extended home networks, then service accessibility and flexibility are improved, but network security and quality control become more challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary authentication and authorization actions before users access digital content services outside their primary residence. The gateway device pre-loads subscription information, authenticates user credentials, and establishes quality of service parameters in advance. This preliminary action ensures that security checks and quality controls are already in place before the user connects to extended networks, maintaining security and reliability while enabling flexible access from multiple locations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple equipment devices are integrated into an extended home network, then service versatility and user convenience are improved, but network management complexity and authentication overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges authentication and management functions into a single gateway device that serves the entire extended home network. Instead of each equipment device requiring separate authentication and management capabilities, the gateway consolidates these functions. The gateway stores centralized subscription information, manages access rights for multiple devices, and handles quality of service control, thereby reducing network management complexity while maintaining service versatility across multiple integrated devices.
Data Source
AI summary
A device for managing an extended home network is disclosed. This extended home network comprises a main home network and a secondary network, including an equipment adapted to execute an application based on a uniform resource locator address that enables the equipment to access, via a communication network, at least one piece of data enabling the execution of the application on the equipment. The management device is configured to: receive, via the main home network, a request to associate the equipment from the secondary network with the application, store a list of equipment from the secondary network in association with the application, receive a request to launch the application, from a terminal, via the secondary network, this request comprising an identifier of the application, provide the terminal, on reception of the launch request, with the list of equipment, receive, from the terminal, an identifier of an equipment on the list.