Multi-Screen Content Server Cross-Platform Playback Continuity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inconvenience in accessing and continuing to watch the same content across different media service platforms, such as TV and mobile devices, without the need for additional purchases or subscriptions, as existing technologies do not allow seamless content transfer or recognition of purchased content across various service systems.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilize a multi-screen service providing server to manage user IDs and content IDs across multiple service systems, allowing for authentication, transcoding, and seamless content playback by mapping usage information and providing an API for interworking between service systems, ensuring continuity of content access regardless of the device or platform.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a user purchases contents through a TV service system, then the user can watch the contents on TV, but the user cannot continue watching the same contents on a mobile device without repurchasing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal content management system that allows content purchased through any service system (TV, mobile, etc.) to be accessed across all devices. The server maps user IDs from different service systems to a unified user profile, enabling cross-platform content accessibility without repurchasing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary between different service systems and devices. This server stores and manages content usage information, mapping it between different user IDs from various service systems, thereby enabling seamless content transfer and continuity across different platforms.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a user wants to watch contents on multiple service systems, then the user can access contents through different devices, but the user needs to subscribe to and purchase each service separately
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal content access system where a single content purchase is recognized across multiple service systems. The server maps user IDs from different service systems to a unified profile, allowing users to access purchased content through any service without additional subscriptions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple service system user profiles into a unified user profile on the server. By combining content usage information from different service systems under a single user identity, the system eliminates the need for separate subscriptions across services.
3Loss of information
If content usage information is stored in each service system separately, then each service can manage its own contents, but the user cannot check records of contents purchased through other service systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary that centralizes content usage information management. The server receives, stores, and maps usage information from multiple service systems, enabling users to access their content records across all services while keeping the individual service systems relatively simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges content usage information from multiple service systems into a unified information structure on the server. By consolidating user profiles and content records across services, the system enables comprehensive information access without significantly increasing complexity in individual service systems.
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AI summary
In some examples, a contents providing apparatus that provides contents to multiple devices may include a user information management unit, a contents management unit, a contents usage information management unit, and a contents usage information searching unit.