Interactive Streaming Media Simulation Environment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies face limitations in providing interactive streaming media solutions that allow for seamless user interaction with remote applications without the need for installation on client devices, particularly in efficiently managing user input and simulating device environments for enhanced user experience.
Innovation Solution
A system where a host server executes a second application in a simulation environment and provides a media stream to a client device, allowing for interactive presentation and side-band communication channels to manage user interactions, enabling the recreation of user inputs in the simulation environment and optimizing the presentation of remote applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If an application is executed remotely on a host server in a simulation environment and streamed to a client device, then the client device does not need to install the application, but the system complexity increases due to the need for simulation environment setup and interaction event synchronization
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a simulation environment that copies the client device's operational characteristics on the host server. This allows the application to run remotely while mimicking local execution, eliminating installation needs while maintaining interaction fidelity through the copied device profile.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces interaction event descriptions as an intermediary mechanism between the client device and the remote application. These descriptions capture user inputs and transmit them to the simulation environment, enabling seamless interaction without direct installation on the client device.
2Ease of operation
If interaction events are captured on the client device and transmitted to the host server for recreation, then user interaction capability is maintained, but communication bandwidth consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent processes interaction events locally on the client device by capturing and describing them before transmission. This local processing optimizes the data format and reduces redundant information, maintaining full interaction capability while minimizing bandwidth consumption through efficient data representation.
3Loss of time
If the simulation environment is prepared in advance with the application executed and suspended at a cue point, then application launch time is reduced, but the host server must maintain suspended application states consuming memory resources
Solution Approach 1:
The patent executes the application in advance within the simulation environment and suspends it at a cue point before the user actually needs it. This preliminary execution allows the application to be ready for immediate resumption, significantly reducing launch time while the suspended state maintains minimal resource overhead compared to full execution.
Data Source
AI summary
A client system presents, within an execution environment of an application, a third-party media stream distinct from the application, received from a remote host server via a network. The client system detects interaction events during presentation of the third-party media stream, and transmits descriptions of the detected interaction events to the remote host server. The application may be pre-cued prior to presentation, e.g., to minimize start-up time. In some implementations, a side-band message channel is established to facilitate communication between the client system and the remote host server.