Mobile Device Content Sharing Notification System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Service providers are not notified about content sharing via short-range radios, as they are not locally located to the mobile devices involved in these communications, limiting their ability to analyze virality or popularity and charge providers accordingly.
Innovation Solution
A system where mobile devices use a network connection, such as a cellular connection, to notify a server about content shared via short-range radios like NFC or Bluetooth, allowing the server to store and analyze information about the shared content and devices involved, including device type, model, and identifier.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If content is shared via short-range radio between mobile devices, then local content sharing capability is improved, but service provider notification and analysis capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary that receives notifications from mobile devices about content shared via short-range radio. The server acts as a mediator between the local short-range communication and the service provider's analysis systems, enabling indirect notification without interfering with the direct peer-to-peer content sharing capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a new communication dimension by introducing a separate notification channel from mobile devices to the server. This parallel communication path operates independently from the short-range radio content sharing, allowing service providers to receive information about sharing activities without disrupting the original local sharing mechanism.
2Productivity
If service providers receive detailed information about content sharing, then analysis and billing capability is improved, but device complexity and data management burden increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the data management and analysis functions from the mobile devices and relocates them to a centralized server. The server handles the complex tasks of receiving, storing, analyzing, and billing for content sharing information, while mobile devices only need to perform simple notification transmissions, significantly reducing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The server provides multiple functions including receiving notifications, storing sharing information, analyzing content virality, and processing billing. By consolidating these diverse functions in a single centralized system rather than distributing them across multiple devices, the overall system complexity is reduced while maintaining comprehensive analysis capability.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for managing information about content transmission are disclosed. In some implementations, a first mobile device communicates with a second mobile device, via a short-range radio of the first mobile device, to either send or receive a content item. The first mobile device tags the content item with a tag. The tag identifies the second mobile device. The first mobile device transmits to a server, via an additional radio of the first mobile device, data identifying the content and the second mobile device. The additional radio is different from the short-range radio. The data is transmitted to the server for analyzing short-range radio transmissions between mobile devices.