Mobile Content Manifest Prioritization for Reliable Personalized Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for distributing media content to mobile communication devices face challenges such as transmission errors leading to failed installations due to large content packs and high error probabilities, as well as the inability to tailor content to diverse device and user preferences.
Innovation Solution
A system that sends media content artifacts individually, indexed by attributes, allowing devices to request and install content based on device and subscriber attributes, with prioritization and retry mechanisms to enhance reliability and personalization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If media content is distributed as large content packs to mobile devices, then comprehensive content coverage is achieved, but transmission errors increase and installation reliability decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments media content into individual installable units (IIUs), each representing a discrete content element that can be independently transmitted and installed. This segmentation transforms large content packs into smaller, manageable units that reduce transmission error probability while maintaining comprehensive content coverage through selective assembly of multiple IIUs.
2Ease of manufacture
If uniform media content is distributed to all devices, then distribution simplicity is maintained, but adaptability to diverse device capabilities and user preferences is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by associating specific attributes with each media content artifact and IIU, enabling the system to select and assemble content based on local device characteristics (display resolution, processor capability, memory) and user preferences. This allows uniform distribution processes to deliver customized content compositions to different devices without complicating the overall distribution architecture.
3Reliability
If media content artifacts are transmitted individually with prioritization, then transmission reliability improves, but system complexity increases due to manifest creation and attribute matching
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-creating manifests that contain prioritized lists of IIUs and their associated attributes before transmission. This preliminary structuring of content metadata enables the receiving device to efficiently process and install content according to priorities without requiring complex real-time decision-making, thus improving reliability while managing system complexity through advance preparation.
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AI summary
A method of providing media content to a communication device. The method comprises retrieving subscriber attributes by a media content provider application from a subscriber database; creating a manifest of media content artifacts by the media content provider application based on identifying alignment between at least some of the media content artifacts, attributes of the communication device, and the subscriber attributes, wherein the manifest of media content artifacts identifies a list of selected media content artifacts along with a location from which the communication device can retrieve the selected media content artifacts and identifies a retrieval priority of each of the selected media content artifacts; and sending the manifest by the media content provider application to the communication device, whereby the communication device is enabled to retrieve the selected media content artifacts in a prioritized manner and install some of the selected media content artifacts in the communication device.