Immutable Content Ledger for Encrypted Edge Cache Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content distribution systems in mobile environments, such as airplanes, trains, and buses, face challenges with variable connectivity and limited bandwidth, failing to meet consumer expectations for seamless network access and high-speed content streaming.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a Content Delivery Network Extender (CDNE) that augments connectivity with high-speed access points at strategic locations, using intelligent caching techniques and a Content Service Provider (CSP) to manage mobile environments as a connected subnetwork, leveraging capacitors and CDN nodes to pre-load and distribute content efficiently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If content distribution relies on standard network connectivity in mobile environments, then system complexity remains manageable, but content delivery speed and reliability deteriorate due to variable connectivity and limited bandwidth
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements pre-loading of content to strategic locations (capacitors and CDN nodes) before mobile environments need access. This preliminary action stores content in advance at predetermined locations along travel routes, ensuring high-speed delivery when needed while bypassing the need for real-time network connectivity during transit.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces capacitors as intermediary storage devices positioned at strategic locations between content sources and mobile environments. These capacitors act as mediators that buffer content delivery, allowing mobile environments to access pre-stored content without direct real-time connection to original content sources, thereby improving both speed and reliability.
2Reliability
If content is pre-loaded at strategic locations using capacitors and CDN nodes, then content delivery reliability improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the content distribution system into distinct functional components: capacitors at strategic locations, CDN nodes for content storage and management, and mobile environment interfaces. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently and managed separately, making the overall complex system more controllable and maintainable.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal content delivery framework that can serve multiple mobile environments (airplanes, trains, buses) through a common infrastructure of capacitors and CDN nodes. This multi-functional system handles different types of mobile platforms, content types, and connectivity scenarios through a unified approach, reducing operational complexity despite the enhanced capabilities.
3Speed
If high-speed access points are deployed at strategic locations, then content delivery speed improves, but infrastructure cost and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the functions of capacitors (local storage), CDN nodes (content management), and high-speed access points into an integrated content delivery infrastructure. By combining these functions at strategic locations, the system achieves high-speed content delivery without requiring separate independent systems, thereby reducing overall infrastructure complexity while maintaining enhanced performance.
Data Source
AI summary
A system comprising a plurality of peer caches associated with a corresponding plurality of content owners; shared ledger logic having a channel for each content owner of a plurality of content owners, the shared ledger logic to maintain a shared ledger data structure and to perform the operations of: in response to receipt of a first content title, responsively recording a first ledger entry for the first content title which is visible to a first content owner which owns the first content title; receiving an encryption key from the content owner, wherein the first content title comprises an encrypted content title encrypted with the key; storing the encrypted content title on one or more network storage devices; and when the encrypted content title reaches an edge cache, using the key to decrypt the encrypted content title and updating the first ledger entry to identify the edge cache.