Mobile Coalition System for Synchronized Multimedia Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies fail to enable the pooling of resources from multiple devices to deliver a unified, enriched multimedia experience, particularly in scenarios where a single device lacks the necessary network capabilities or input-output capabilities to render high-experience services, and do not support collaborative setups or resynchronization through user interface gestures.
Innovation Solution
A system that coordinates multiple devices to form a coalition, allowing them to pool resources and deliver a multimedia service by recommending coalition formation, setting up and adapting devices for synchronized media delivery, managing user interactions, and maintaining service continuity even when devices leave or fail, using a master device, server, and modules to analyze capabilities and synchronize streams.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If services are delivered to a single device, then the service delivery is simple and straightforward, but the service experience is limited by the device's individual capabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple devices into a coalition to deliver a unified service experience. Devices pool their resources (processing power, display capabilities, network interfaces) to collectively render services that exceed any single device's capabilities, resolving the contradiction between service experience and device limitations
Solution Approach 2:
The service delivery is segmented across multiple devices in the coalition, with each device handling specific portions or aspects of the service. This allows the system to overcome individual device limitations while maintaining coordinated service delivery
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple devices are coordinated to pool resources, then the service experience is enriched and capabilities are extended, but the coordination and synchronization complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A coalition manager acts as an intermediary to coordinate devices in the coalition. It handles device discovery, capability assessment, coalition formation, and service routing, thereby managing the coordination complexity while enabling enriched service experiences through pooled device capabilities
3Reliability
If devices form a coalition for unified service delivery, then the multimedia experience is enhanced, but the synchronization and resource management become more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where devices report their status, capabilities, and performance metrics to the coalition manager. This enables dynamic resource allocation, load balancing, and synchronization adjustments, managing resource complexity while maintaining reliable service delivery across the coalition
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for supporting mobile coalitions for entertainment comprises devices including a master device, a server having a multimedia service executable by the master device and modules operable to recommend formation of a coalition based on the service, invite the devices to participate in the coalition, set up the coalition by determining the devices to participate, launching on each device a link to the coalition, performing emulation of the coalition by streaming a portion of the service to each device until experience is satisfactory, and continuing by transmitting the service to the devices, capture interactions on the devices by users, the interactions comprising at least gestures, taps correlating to messages of quality of experience, adapt the coalition by managing user inputs conveying quality of experience, maintaining synchronization of the devices, and maintaining the service when one or more of the devices cease to participate, and terminate the coalition.