Location-Tracking Media Stream Handoff Across Premises Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of non-portable media devices, such as televisions, face interruptions and frustration when moving between locations, as they must manually configure new devices to continue media consumption, leading to missed content and disrupted experiences, especially when multiple users are involved.
Innovation Solution
A location-tracked media delivery system that uses consumer location tracking and media stream tracking to automatically transfer or clone media streams between devices, ensuring seamless media consumption across different regions and devices within a premises, including dead space areas.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users manually configure new devices to continue media consumption when moving locations, then media playback can continue on the new device, but user experience is interrupted and time is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically performs device configuration and media stream transfer without user intervention. When a user moves to a new location, the system detects the movement, identifies available devices in the new location, and automatically configures them to continue playing the media stream, eliminating manual configuration steps
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-configures and stands by multiple media consumption devices at different locations before users need them. Devices are pre-positioned and pre-configured with necessary software and network settings, so when a user arrives at a new location, the device is already ready to receive and play the media stream immediately
2Adaptability or versatility
If users manually reconfigure devices when changing locations, then media consumption can resume, but portions of media may be missed during transition
Solution Approach 1:
The media stream is continuously maintained and transferred without interruption as the user moves between locations. The system ensures seamless handoff of the media stream from one device to another, maintaining continuous playback so users never miss content during location transitions
Solution Approach 2:
A central system acts as an intermediary between users, devices, and media streams. This intermediary system coordinates the transfer of media streams between devices, manages device configurations, and ensures continuous playback by bridging the transition between locations and devices
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple users share media consumption, then social viewing is enabled, but configuration complexity increases when users move independently
Solution Approach 1:
The system is designed to universally support multiple users with independent movement patterns. Each user can move to different locations and the system automatically handles configuration for each user's device based on their location, maintaining simple individual interactions despite complex multi-user scenarios
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AI summary
Novel techniques are described for location-tracked media delivery. For example, a particular consumer premises has multiple media consumption devices, each located in a different room of the premises. One or more media streams being consumed via one or more of the media consumption devices can be tracked. As one or more consumers move through the premises, their respective physical locations in the premises can also be tracked with respect to media consumption regions of the media consumption devices. By detecting movement of the consumers with respect to the consumed streams and the media consumption devices, embodiments can automatically provide various features. For example, streams can automatically be transferred or cloned among the media consumption devices, and/or streams and devices can be adapted automatically to facilitate some continued media consumption in some dead space regions.