Media Content Distribution System Routing Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing file transfer systems face challenges with the slow transfer rate and control of large audio/video files, often requiring costly and inconsistent vehicular transport, and struggle with ease of establishing and controlling electronic file transfers across various sources and destinations, especially due to corporate firewalls and security concerns.
Innovation Solution
A media content distribution method and system that allows for the establishment of relations between content sources and destinations, providing a listing of available routing paths for file transfers, enabling user selection and monitoring of these transfers, and facilitating secure and efficient transmission of digital content via a content exchange control entity, utilizing protocols like UDP and DMZ agents for secure communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If electronic file transfer is used for large audio/video files, then transfer cost is reduced compared to vehicular transport, but transfer rate is slow and transfer duration is long
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the file transfer process into multiple concurrent transfer paths. Instead of transferring files through a single route, the system divides the transfer into parallel paths that can operate simultaneously, thereby increasing overall transfer rate while maintaining cost-effectiveness compared to vehicular transport.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically selects and switches between multiple available routing paths based on real-time network conditions. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to optimize transfer rates by choosing the fastest available path while maintaining secure and controlled transfer, resolving the contradiction between transfer speed and security control.
2Loss of time
If vehicular transport is used for large audio/video files, then transfer duration is short, but transfer cost is high and transfer consistency is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical vehicular transport system with an electronic file transfer system that uses multiple concurrent network paths. This substitution maintains transfer speed advantages while eliminating the high costs and inconsistencies associated with vehicular transport, achieving both short transfer duration and cost-effectiveness.
3Ease of operation
If electronic file transfer is implemented, then transfer ease is improved, but control and security management becomes challenging due to firewalls and secure channels
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a content exchange control entity that acts as an intermediary between content sources and destinations. This intermediary manages the complexity of firewall navigation and secure channel establishment, providing user-friendly transfer initiation while handling the underlying security and control mechanisms automatically.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the content exchange control entity monitors transfer status and adjusts routing paths based on network conditions and security requirements. This feedback loop simplifies user interaction by automatically managing security protocols and firewall rules while maintaining ease of operation.
4Productivity
If multiple routing paths are provided for file transfer, then transfer rate is improved through parallel transmission, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The content exchange control entity serves multiple functions: it manages routing path selection, monitors transfer status, handles security protocols, and coordinates parallel transfers. By consolidating these functions into a single multi-functional entity, the system achieves high transfer rates through multiple paths while minimizing overall system complexity.
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AI summary
A system and method for transfer of digital content, including providing a listing of sources and content destinations, receiving a user selection of a content source and a destination from the source and destination listing, providing a listing of available paths for the exchange of digital content, receiving a user selection of a routing path from the routing path listing, and permitting transmission of the content from the selected source to the destination via the selected routing path.