Partitioned Content Delivery for Real-Time Updates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content delivery technologies face challenges in providing rapid and reliable delivery of interactive electronic services to a large number of devices, often resulting in lag times, increased latencies, and slow data connections, especially with sophisticated and interactive content that requires real-time updates.
Innovation Solution
A multi-phased and partitioned content preparation process that caches content app sections on a server for speedy access, only sending updated sections to clients, allowing for real-time updates and minimizing bandwidth consumption, while insulating clients from server-side events and unreliable connections.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If traditional content delivery methods are used to serve a large number of users with interactive content, then server capability is burdened and content delivery speed decreases, but updating content in real-time for all users becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments content into modular components that can be independently prepared, cached, and delivered. This allows the system to deliver content in smaller, manageable units rather than as monolithic files, improving delivery speed while enabling selective real-time updates of specific content segments without requiring complete content redistribution.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary content preparation by pre-compiling and caching content segments on the server before they are requested by users. This advance preparation eliminates processing delays during actual content delivery, enabling both fast content delivery and efficient real-time updates by only needing to redistribute changed segments rather than complete content sets.
2Reliability
If content is prepared and delivered in real-time to multiple users, then data connection reliability decreases due to network instability, but user experience requires continuous service without interruptions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements beforehand cushioning by pre-caching content segments on the server and preparing backup content versions in advance. When network connections are unstable or interrupted, the system can retrieve content from cached copies rather than requiring real-time network transmission, ensuring service continuity and protecting against network-related disruptions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates and maintains multiple copies of content segments in different locations (server cache, user device cache). This copying strategy ensures that if the primary content delivery path fails due to network instability, alternative copies can be retrieved from other locations, maintaining service reliability without requiring continuous stable network connections.
3Reliability
If all content is sent to clients whenever updates occur, then bandwidth consumption increases, but ensuring clients have latest content requires complete content redistribution
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and identifies only the specific content segments that have changed on the server, rather than redistributing complete content sets. The system compares content versions, detects modifications, and delivers only the extracted changed segments to clients, ensuring content update completeness while minimizing bandwidth consumption by excluding unchanged content from transmission.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies local quality by delivering content updates with differentiated detail levels based on client needs and network conditions. Changed content segments are delivered with appropriate quality and completeness tailored to each client's specific requirements, ensuring each client receives sufficient update information without unnecessary data transmission, thereby reducing overall bandwidth consumption while maintaining update reliability.
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AI summary
The invention generally relates to optimizing the speed and reliability of the delivery of content or functionality to electronic devices. In certain aspects, the invention provides a system for managing content including a production server with a web interface and configured to allow a producer to create content. The system includes a gateway server which can receive the content and write it to a dynamic section. The gateway server can then compile the dynamic section into a compiled section, still including the content, and send it to a client, thereby giving an end-user access to new content or functionality.