IoT Sponsorship Control via Server Mediator
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional streaming broadcast sponsorship systems offer limited and uninteresting rewards for viewers, primarily relying on chats, simple images, sounds, or videos, failing to engage viewers effectively.
Innovation Solution
A streaming broadcast sponsorship system utilizing Internet of Things (IoT) devices, where viewers can control pre-registered IoT devices owned by broadcasters or other viewers upon sponsorship, providing a more engaging and interactive experience by allowing operation of devices such as fans, air conditioners, or lights through a server-mediated control signal.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional sponsorship rewards (chats, simple images, sounds, videos) are used, then the system is simple to implement, but the viewer engagement and interest are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies multi-functionality by enabling sponsorship rewards to control various types of IoT devices (lights, air conditioners, fans, televisions, audio equipment) rather than limited to simple media files. The server system can process sponsorship requests and translate them into diverse device control actions, making the reward system universally applicable across multiple device types and engagement scenarios.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary component that mediates between the sponsorship request and the IoT device control. The server receives sponsorship information, identifies the target IoT device, generates appropriate control signals, and transmits them to the device. This intermediary layer simplifies the overall system architecture by centralizing the complex logic of matching sponsorships to device controls.
2Adaptability or versatility
If IoT device control is enabled for sponsorship, then viewer engagement and reward interest are enhanced, but device complexity and control signal transmission requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as an intermediary that handles the complexity of IoT device control. It receives standardized sponsorship requests, translates them into device-specific control signals, and communicates with various IoT devices. This intermediary approach allows the system to support diverse device types without increasing the complexity at the viewer terminal or broadcaster terminal.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical or manual reward delivery mechanisms with electronic control signals transmitted through the server. Instead of physical rewards or manual operations, the system uses digital control signals to operate IoT devices, substituting complex physical interaction mechanisms with simpler electronic communication protocols.
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AI summary
A streaming broadcast sponsorship system using an Internet of Things device, capable of inducing a viewer's sponsorship by enabling control of a broadcaster-owned Internet of Things device when the viewer's sponsorship is available is provided, the streaming broadcast sponsorship system includes a broadcaster terminal configured to generate a content and perform a streaming broadcast, a viewer terminal configured to be capable of viewing the broadcast, a server configured to receive the content from the broadcaster terminal, and transmit the received content to the viewer terminal, and IoT devices configured to be capable of communicating with the server and operated by the server, in which the viewer terminal generates sponsorship information for the broadcaster and transmit the sponsorship information to the server, and the server transmits a control signal corresponding to the sponsorship information to the IoT devices, and the IoT devices are operated by the control signal.