Media Access Card Code Scanning for Smartphone Content Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a lack of effective methods for delivering media content, such as music and videos, directly to smart phones using mobile communication devices, which limits the ability of artists and content providers to promote and distribute their work efficiently.
Innovation Solution
A method involving media access cards with machine-readable codes that users can scan to download application software, allowing access to media content through a web server, which facilitates the transmission of media codes to the user's device, enabling the delivery of selected media content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional trading cards are used to promote media content, then artists can promote their work, but the delivery of media content to mobile devices is inefficient and limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a web server as an intermediary between the media access cards and the mobile devices. The web server receives machine-readable codes from the cards, processes them through database tables, and delivers media content to users' mobile devices. This intermediary system enables efficient content delivery while maintaining ease of operation for users.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical trading card systems with an electronic digital system. Machine-readable codes on the cards are scanned by mobile devices, converting physical card information into digital signals that traverse through web servers and databases to deliver media content electronically, thereby improving delivery efficiency.
2Adaptability or versatility
If media access cards with machine-readable codes are used, then content distribution is enabled, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the content distribution system into distinct functional components: media access cards with machine-readable codes, mobile devices with scanning capability, a web server for processing, and database tables for storage. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function independently, making the overall complex system more manageable and maintainable.
Solution Approach 2:
The web server serves multiple functions within the system: it receives machine-readable codes from access cards, queries database tables using the codes, and delivers media content to mobile devices. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated components, thereby managing system complexity while maintaining versatility.
3Reliability
If a web server and database system are implemented, then media content can be located and transmitted, but the infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the web server queries database tables using machine-readable codes from access cards to locate media content, then transmits the content to mobile devices. This feedback loop ensures reliable content transmission by verifying content availability through the database before delivery, maintaining system reliability.
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AI summary
A method of distributing media content using mobile communication devices including providing media access cards which promote selected media content to users of such devices whereby a user may access a web server associated with the media access cards and download application software enabling access to selected media content via a mobile device, the media access cards including a machine readable identification number code that identifies media content associated with the card whereby the application software facilitates reading and transmitting the code to a web server via the mobile device, receiving the identification number with the web server and using the identification number to locate a table value in a database wherein a plurality of media access cards identification numbers are associated with a media content table value, using the table value to identify media codes associated with the selected content server which transmits media to the mobile device.