Distributed Kiosk Broadcast Content Handoff
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users cannot access live content broadcast by a service provider on their mobile devices outside the home, as existing systems provide different content via mobile devices compared to user receiving devices, and there is a need for seamless continuation of broadcast content while moving between locations.
Innovation Solution
A content distribution system using kiosks that receive broadcast signals from a service provider and transmit selected content to mobile devices, with multiple tuners allowing multiple users to view different live content and handoff communication between kiosks as users move, ensuring continuous access to live broadcast content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users access content via mobile devices through internet downloads, then content accessibility on mobile devices is enabled, but the content is not live broadcast content and differs from what is available on user receiving devices
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces distributed kiosks as intermediary devices between the service provider's broadcast system and user mobile devices. These kiosks receive live broadcast content via tuners, store it locally, and serve it to mobile devices through wireless interfaces, enabling consistent access to the same live content both at home and on the go without relying on internet downloads
2Adaptability or versatility
If a single tuner is used in each kiosk, then device complexity is reduced, but the ability to serve multiple users viewing different channels simultaneously is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the content delivery function by equipping each kiosk with multiple independent tuners, where each tuner can independently receive and decode different broadcast channels. This allows multiple users to simultaneously access different live content through the same kiosk without interference, resolving the contradiction between serving multiple users and maintaining simple device architecture
Data Source
AI summary
A system includes a kiosk that receives signals broadcast from a service provider and a wireless interface that receives, from a mobile device, a request for first content included in the signals received by the kiosk. The first content corresponds to a first channel. The kiosk includes a plurality of tuners. The kiosk tunes a first tuner of the plurality of tuners to the first channel and the first tuner outputs the first content. The kiosk provides the first content to the wireless interface. The wireless interface transmits the first content to the mobile device.