Cross-Platform Media Translation via Common Language Messages
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current telecommunications systems lack a common interface to transparently combine services from different service providers and devices, limiting convergence across various platforms and media types, making it difficult and expensive to add or expand services.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that translate content from various media types into common language messages, which are then sent to end devices, allowing for cross-platform support by using a communications bus and application framework to manage and translate messages between servers, managers, and end devices, enabling seamless integration of different services and media types.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If services are combined from different service providers and device types, then convergence and interoperability are improved, but device complexity and integration difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a common language message system as an intermediary layer between diverse media types and platforms. This message system translates and standardizes communications from different media types (voice, data, video, etc.) into a unified format, enabling interoperability without direct complex integration between all platform components. The message acts as a mediator that simplifies the integration process while maintaining cross-platform support.
2Adaptability or versatility
If services are expanded or added to existing platforms, then service versatility is improved, but modification costs and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal message system that can handle multiple media types and service functions through a common interface. This universal message structure allows new services to be added by implementing them in the existing message framework rather than requiring extensive modifications to underlying hardware and software. The multi-functional message system reduces service addition costs by providing a reusable foundation for diverse service implementations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If transparent service combination across different providers is achieved, then service convergence is improved, but interface complexity and translation requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies homogeneity by standardizing diverse media type communications into a unified message format. All service communications from different providers are translated into this common language message structure, creating homogeneous interfaces that simplify convergence. The homogeneous message format reduces interface complexity by eliminating the need for multiple specialized interfaces while maintaining the ability to represent diverse media types through standardized message fields and protocols.
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AI summary
Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed to provide cross-platform support for a variety of media types. In one embodiment, a method of providing cross-platform support for a variety of media types can comprise translating content provided by one or more servers from one or more media types to one or more common language messages. Each common language message can be one of a plurality of message types. Each message type can represent a different user-facing service provided by the server. The one or more common language messages can be sent to one or more end devices of one or more different device types. The common language messages can be translated to a format specific to one or more of the end devices based on the device type.