Digital Media Content File Server Access Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing digital media content management systems require complex methods to upload, store, and synchronize content across multiple servers, making it difficult for users to efficiently manage and search for uploaded content without specific content management systems.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that store access information about the server in a digital media content file, allowing users to easily upload, access, and synchronize content across multiple servers by using this access information for updating and filtering content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a specific content management system is used to upload and manage digital media content to servers, then the content can be stored and accessed, but the system complexity and difficulty of operation increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent storage reliabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the server access information from the complex content management system and stores it directly within the digital media content file itself. This allows the content to carry its own access information (URL, server address) without requiring external management systems, thereby reducing system complexity while maintaining reliable content storage and access capabilities

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The digital media content file becomes self-sufficient by embedding access information directly within it. The content can independently provide its own location and access details without needing external management systems, enabling users to directly access uploaded content through the embedded information rather than requiring complex management interfaces

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Loss of information

If a specific content management system is used to search for uploaded content, then content can be found, but the ease of operation decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent search capabilityVSAvoiduser convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the access information (server address, URL) from the content management system and embeds it within the digital media content file. This allows users to directly access content through the embedded information without needing to use complex search interfaces or management systems, significantly improving ease of operation while maintaining the ability to locate and access uploaded content

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Adaptability or versatility

If content is uploaded to multiple servers, then content availability increases, but the complexity of managing and synchronizing content increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent availabilityVSAvoidsynchronization complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts server access information from complex synchronization systems and stores it within the content file itself. When content is uploaded to multiple servers, the embedded access information automatically reflects all server locations, enabling users to access content from any server without requiring complex synchronization management or system interventions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The digital media content file acts as an intermediary that carries server access information between the user apparatus and multiple servers. This intermediary approach allows content to be distributed across multiple servers while the file itself manages the access information, simplifying the overall synchronization and management process

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS9641610B2Method of managing digital media contents, computer-readable storage medium for recording the method, and user apparatus for performing the method
Publication Date: 2017.05.02 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A method for managing digital media content is described. Digital media content is uploaded to a server by a user apparatus. Access information about the server is stored in a digital media content file in which the digital media content is stored.