IP Multimedia Gateway Content Sharing via Service Manager Profiles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current communication systems lack efficient methods for providing content sharing services across local and remote IP multimedia residential gateways, limiting the ability to seamlessly share multimedia content among various devices over broadband IP networks.
Innovation Solution
The system employs IP multimedia residential gateways that manage content sharing services by associating content sharing service profiles with communication devices, enabling secure and controlled sharing of content streams across local and remote devices, utilizing service managers to configure permissions, user preferences, and device capabilities, and integrating with broadband IP networks for multimedia service delivery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content sharing services are implemented across local and remote IP multimedia residential gateways, then the ability to share multimedia content among various devices is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces service managers as intermediary network devices that mediate between content sources and communication devices. These service managers centrally manage content sharing service profiles, authentication, and distribution logic, thereby reducing the complexity at individual gateway and device levels while enabling versatile content sharing across the network.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements universal content sharing service profiles that can be applied across multiple device types and network configurations. The service manager provides a unified interface for managing content sharing regardless of the specific devices involved, allowing a single system architecture to support diverse content sharing scenarios without increasing overall system complexity.
2Reliability
If secure and controlled content sharing is implemented, then content security and user control are improved, but the device complexity and configuration requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The service manager acts as an intermediary that handles all security-related operations centrally, including authentication of communication devices, verification of content sharing permissions, and management of user preferences. This centralizes security logic and eliminates the need for complex security configurations at individual devices, maintaining high security standards while simplifying device-level operations.
3Ease of operation
If content sharing service profiles are managed by service managers, then content distribution control and user preferences management are improved, but the network infrastructure complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The service manager implements a universal profile-based architecture where a single standardized profile format can be applied across different content types, devices, and network configurations. This universality allows the network infrastructure to maintain manageable complexity while providing sophisticated content distribution control and user preference management through a consistent interface.
Data Source
AI summary
An IP multimedia gateway (IMG) receives content sharing service profiles generated by a service manager for communication devices that are coupled to the IMG. Content and/or content information that is received for communication to a first device, is communicated to other devices in response to a request. Content sharing profiles comprise permissions, group members, user preferences, device capabilities and security profiles. Content streams communicated to the first device may be shared with a second device based on the profiles. The second device may share additional streams with the first device. The first device or other devices may communicate the request. The content may be received from a service manager network device. The IMG and a communication device that may display the content may be integrated in a set-top-box or digital TV. Login access is enabled to devices for requesting content. Cooperation with other IMGs may enable discovery and/or content communication.