Location-Aware Content Delivery for Edge Devices

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing learning systems fail to effectively adapt content delivery to the varying capabilities of user devices, particularly in resource-constrained edge devices, leading to inefficient content distribution.

Innovation Solution

A location-aware learning system that determines the type and amount of content to transmit based on the user device's storage capacity, travel distance to the hub circuitry, and learning capacity, adjusting file formats and sizes dynamically to optimize content delivery.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If content is transmitted without adapting to user device capabilities, then content delivery is simplified, but content distribution efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent distribution efficiencyVSAvoidcontent delivery complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically changes content parameters (file type, file size, content amount) based on user device capabilities. The processor circuitry determines these parameters by evaluating storage capacity, travel distance to hub circuitry, and learning capacity, thereby optimizing content distribution efficiency for each device without requiring complex manual configuration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables user devices to self-report their capabilities (storage capacity, device type) to the learning system. The processor circuitry automatically matches content parameters to device capabilities without human intervention, allowing the system to serve itself in optimizing content delivery across diverse devices.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Quantity of substance

If content amount is increased for users with larger storage capacity, then learning material completeness is improved, but storage constraint violations worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent amountVSAvoidstorage constraint compliance
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system adjusts the content amount parameter based on the storage capacity of each user device. The processor circuitry determines the optimal content amount by evaluating the device's storage capacity, ensuring that content is transmitted only in quantities that the device can reliably store, thus maintaining both learning material completeness and storage constraint compliance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Quantity of substance

If file size is increased to provide more content, then learning content completeness is improved, but transmission bandwidth consumption worsens

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelearning content completenessVSAvoidbandwidth consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically changes the file size parameter based on multiple factors including device storage capacity, travel distance to hub circuitry, and learning capacity. The processor circuitry determines the optimal file size that provides sufficient learning content while minimizing bandwidth consumption by avoiding transmission of excessive data to devices with limited capabilities or poor connectivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

4Ease of operation

If content is pre-delivered to all users, then content availability is improved, but network bandwidth waste worsens

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent availabilityVSAvoidnetwork bandwidth waste
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by customizing content delivery parameters for each individual user based on their specific device capabilities and context. The processor circuitry determines content type, amount, and file size locally for each user rather than applying a uniform pre-delivery approach, ensuring content availability is optimized for each user while minimizing overall network bandwidth waste.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP4207710B1Location aware learning system for content dispensation for resource-constrained edge devices
Publication Date: 2024.12.18 ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LTD
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AI summary

A learning system for automatically transmitting files according to user capabilities is provided. The learning system may include non-transitory memory storing instructions executable to transmit a file to a user device, and a processor circuitry configured to execute the instructions to determine a home base location of a user from at least one of a database storing user information of the user and the user device of the user. The processor circuitry further configured to calculate a travel distance from the home base location of the user to a hub circuitry of the learning system, determine a type of the file and an amount of content of the file based on the travel distance, and transmit, to the user device, the file according to the type of the file and the amount of content of the file.