Media Streaming Eligibility via Geographic Location Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Media streaming technologies face challenges in controlling the distribution of content while protecting intellectual property rights, particularly in allowing or restricting multiple simultaneous streams, especially with the increasing use of mobile devices that can playback media content across various locations.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that determine eligibility for multiple simultaneous media streams based on geographic or mobility information, allowing streams within a specific location while restricting them outside, using a network server to authenticate and apply business rules for access, such as using GPS or network addresses to identify device locations and enforce rules.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple simultaneous media streams are allowed to different devices, then user flexibility and convenience are improved, but content protection and intellectual property rights control deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by implementing different streaming policies for different geographic locations. Devices within the same geographic vicinity (e.g., same home or office) are permitted multiple simultaneous streams, while devices in other locations are restricted. This location-based differentiation resolves the contradiction by allowing flexibility locally while maintaining content protection globally through geographic segmentation.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If multiple simultaneous media streams are restricted to protect content, then content protection is improved, but user convenience and flexibility deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic streaming eligibility determination based on real-time geographic location data. The system continuously monitors device locations and dynamically adjusts streaming permissions accordingly. This dynamic approach resolves the contradiction by adapting content protection measures to actual usage scenarios, providing convenience when appropriate while maintaining protection when necessary.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If geographic location verification is implemented to control streaming, then content protection is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary eligibility determination system that acts as a mediator between content protection requirements and streaming delivery. This intermediary component receives location information from various sources, evaluates eligibility based on geographic criteria, and makes authorization decisions. By centralizing the complex verification logic in this intermediary layer, the system achieves improved content protection while managing complexity through modular architecture.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems and devices to authorize access to a simultaneous media streams are described. After a first media stream is initiated with a first client device, an authorization service receives a request to establish the simultaneous second media stream with a second client device. The service determines whether the second client device is at a geographic location where simultaneous streaming is allowed, and grants or denies access to the second simultaneous stream accordingly.