Linked Device Data Channels for Privacy-Protected Media Playback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies fail to effectively link devices while protecting consumer data privacy and ensure complete consumption of audiovisual media during travel.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for linking devices through data channels, adjusting media playback rates based on travel duration, and providing targeted media recommendations to ensure complete consumption during travel, while maintaining consumer data privacy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If devices are linked through data channels to enable communication and coordination, then device connectivity and collaboration are improved, but consumer data privacy is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a mediator system that sits between devices and consumers, managing data channels and controlling what information is shared. The mediator anonymizes device identifiers, aggregates location data, and filters communications to protect consumer privacy while enabling device connectivity and coordination for media playback.
2Productivity
If media playback rate is adjusted to match travel duration, then complete media consumption during travel is achieved, but playback quality and user experience may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts media playback rate based on real-time travel duration calculations. The playback rate is not fixed but adapts to the actual travel time, allowing the system to optimize between complete consumption and acceptable quality by selecting appropriate playback speeds from a range of options.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the playback rate parameter based on travel duration. The system calculates estimated travel time and selects a playback rate that ensures complete media consumption within that timeframe, while providing users with options to maintain higher quality at the cost of potentially incomplete consumption.
3Measurement precision
If real-time location tracking is implemented to provide route information and monitor device positions, then navigation accuracy and device coordination are improved, but consumer location privacy is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates anonymized copies of location data for sharing between devices and the server, while preserving the actual consumer location information privately. Device identifiers are replaced with anonymous tokens, and location data is aggregated and processed without revealing individual consumer positions, enabling navigation coordination without compromising location privacy.
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AI summary
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for linking devices and protecting data. One method includes receiving, from an inviter device, a link up request associated with a link up location, establishing one or more data channels with the inviter device, providing the link up request to each of a plurality of invitee devices, establishing the one or more data channels with the first invitee device, generating and providing, to the first invitee device via a first graphical user interface (GUI) of an application, a first proposed route to the link up location and at least one first location of one of the plurality of invitee devices or the inviter device, collecting environmental data of the inviter device and the plurality of invitee devices, providing a location of the first invitee device, and disconnecting the one or more data channels connecting the one or more processors and the first invitee device.