Multi-services Gateway for Digital Home Network Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
The emerging digital home is complex, making it difficult for technologically challenged users to manage home networks and interconnected digital devices, especially in terms of media content protection and delivery across different interfaces.
Innovation Solution
A multi-services application gateway appliance that provides managed services, incorporating a causation and correlation engine, to offer broader services such as financial, health, exercise, nutrition, and home security objectives, while simplifying media delivery, content management, and device management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a gateway appliance provides comprehensive managed services for digital home devices, then service functionality and versatility are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway appliance is designed as a universal platform that can provide multiple managed services including media content protection, device management, and personalized coaching services across different interfaces (two-foot and ten-foot interfaces). The system integrates diverse functionalities into a single device, allowing it to adapt to various service requirements without requiring separate dedicated devices for each function.
2Reliability
If media content protection is implemented across multiple interfaces, then content security is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway appliance serves as an intermediary device between content sources and display devices (both two-foot and ten-foot interfaces). It implements content protection by acting as a trusted intermediary that manages content delivery and protection across different interfaces, reducing the complexity burden on individual devices while maintaining comprehensive security.
3Adaptability or versatility
If personalized coaching services are added to managed services, then user value and service breadth are improved, but processing requirements and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway appliance segments service processing into different functional modules, including media management, device control, and personalized coaching services. This segmentation allows the system to handle complex processing requirements for personalized objectives by distributing computational tasks across specialized modules, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining service breadth.
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AI summary
An intelligent gateway device provided at a premise (home or business) for providing and managing application services associated with use and support of a plurality of digital endpoint devices associated with the premises. The device includes a communications and processing infrastructure integrated with a peer and presence messaging based communications protocol for enabling communications between the device and an external support network and between the device and connected digital endpoint devices. A services framework at the gateway device implements the communications and processing infrastructure for enabling service management, service configuration, and authentication of user of services at the intelligent gateway. The framework provides a storage and execution environment for supporting and executing received service logic modules relating to use, management, and support of the digital endpoint devices. Thus, the gateway device provides a network-based services point of presence for a plurality of digital endpoint devices at the premises.