Home Network Manager Content Sharing Framework
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Solution Overview
Problem
Digital content sharing faces challenges in accessibility and integrity due to the spread of digital content across various devices, requiring users to manage and access content efficiently while maintaining security and data integrity.
Innovation Solution
An enhanced content sharing framework that utilizes home network manager devices to create communities for content rendering and storing, allowing authorized users to move content between devices without specifying storage locations, using presence tables and policy information to ensure secure and seamless access across networks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users manually manage content across multiple devices, then content accessibility is improved, but device complexity and user burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a network-operated device as an intermediary that automatically manages content distribution across multiple devices. This mediator handles content addressing, location tracking, and device coordination, eliminating the need for users to manually manage content across devices while maintaining high accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service content management where the network automatically handles content delivery, device registration, and access coordination. Users simply initiate content requests, and the system autonomously manages the complex operations of routing content to appropriate devices, reducing user burden while improving accessibility.
2Adaptability or versatility
If content is distributed across multiple devices, then content availability is improved, but data integrity and security control become difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The network-operated device serves as a central intermediary that maintains authoritative control over content distribution. It tracks content location across devices, manages access permissions, and ensures data integrity by coordinating all content transfers and access requests, allowing content to be widely available while maintaining security control.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where devices report their content status and access requests to the network-operated device. This continuous feedback loop enables the system to monitor content integrity, track authorized access, and maintain security policies while allowing content to be distributed across multiple devices for improved availability.
3Measurement precision
If users specify detailed device information for content transfer, then content transfer precision is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-service by automatically determining the optimal destination device for content transfer based on device capabilities, user preferences, and content type. Users simply specify their content transfer intent, and the system autonomously identifies the target device, eliminating the need for users to manually specify detailed device information while maintaining precise content delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The network-operated device acts as an intermediary that handles the complex task of matching content with appropriate destination devices. It analyzes device capabilities, user profiles, and content characteristics to automatically determine the best transfer target, providing precise content placement without requiring users to understand or specify technical device details.
4Adaptability or versatility
If multiple interfaces are provided for different devices, then device compatibility is improved, but learning complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal interface through the network-operated device that provides consistent access to content across all devices. This single unified interface handles content management for multiple device types, eliminating the need for users to learn different interfaces for different devices while maintaining compatibility with diverse device capabilities through the intermediary's adaptation layer.
Data Source
AI summary
An enhanced content sharing framework, in which a presence table indexing content globally stored on a respective home network, and policy information identifying users who are authorized to access the respective home network are received from first and second home network manager devices that respectively manage first and second home networks that each comprises one or more content rendering devices and content storing devices. A message is received from a user requesting that particular content be provided from the first home network to a particular content rendering device or content storing device of the second home network. Based on the presence table of the first home network, it is determined that the particular content is stored on the first home network, and, based on the policy information of the first home network, it is determined that the user is authorized to access the particular content on the first home network.