Interactive Mobile Content Delivery via Broadcast and Intermittent Wireless Paths
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile content browsing systems require a continuous two-way connection to a wireless access point, limiting real-time browsing to the physical location and incurring usage tariffs, which restricts access to video, audio, and other content.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that allows interactive services to mobile devices using over-the-air broadcast and intermittent wireless communication, enabling the provision of different levels of service without constant proximity to a wireless access point and reducing cellular network tariffs, utilizing short-range and long-range wireless transmitters and receivers for program content, basic information, and user-defined content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a continuous two-way connection to a wireless access point is required for mobile content browsing, then real-time content access is enabled, but the user is constrained to the physical location of the WAP and incurs cellular network tariffs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments content delivery into multiple independent pathways: over-the-air broadcast for basic information and cloud content, and selective call-back for non-linear and on-demand information. This segmentation allows the system to provide content without requiring continuous two-way connection, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and location flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary server that receives broadcast information and selectively calls back mobile devices only when needed for non-linear or on-demand content. This intermediary eliminates the need for continuous connection while maintaining content accessibility, allowing users to browse content without being constrained to WAP physical location.
2Reliability
If continuous two-way connection is maintained for interactive services, then real-time interaction is possible, but communication channel utilization becomes inefficient and access costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic action by using over-the-air broadcast for continuous basic information distribution and periodic selective call-back for on-demand content. This replaces continuous two-way connection with intermittent communication, maintaining service reliability while dramatically improving communication channel efficiency and reducing access costs.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies partial action by providing basic information and cloud content through over-the-air broadcast without requiring device interaction, and only establishing two-way connection when specific non-linear or on-demand content is needed. This partial engagement model maintains necessary service availability while optimizing communication channel utilization.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple communication paths are implemented for different content types, then service versatility is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements universality by having the over-the-air broadcast pathway serve multiple functions simultaneously: delivering basic information, cloud content, and serving as the foundation for selective call-back. This multi-functional approach provides content delivery flexibility while managing system complexity through a unified broadcast infrastructure rather than separate systems.
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AI summary
A method of and system for providing interactive services to a set of mobile devices is provided, comprising: providing at least one set of first information adapted for over-the-air broadcast to a set of mobile devices by at least one first facility, wherein the first information is selected from the group comprising program content, basic information and cloud content; providing at least one set of second information adapted for transmission to at least one of the mobile devices by at least one second facility, wherein the second information is selected from the group comprising non-linear information, on-demand information, cloud content and user-defined content, and wherein the second facility comprises a transmitter selected from the group comprising a short range wireless transmitter in intermittent communication with at least one of the mobile devices and a long range wireless transmitter; and receiving at least one set of third information based on information selected from the group comprising the first information and the second information from at least one of the mobile devices, wherein the third information is forwarded by a third facility comprising a receiver selected from the group comprising a short range wireless receiver in intermittent communication with at least one of the mobile devices and a long range wireless receiver.