Personal Cloud Manager Aggregates Digital Assets Across Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Consumers face difficulties in managing their digital assets across multiple devices, as they are scattered across various personal devices and cloud services, leading to challenges in accessing and organizing content and services effectively.
Innovation Solution
A personal cloud system that aggregates usage information from multiple devices, using sensors to track situational characteristics and user interactions, and a personal cloud manager to filter and provide access to relevant digital assets based on user interests and current situations, allowing seamless access across devices and cloud services.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If digital assets are stored across multiple personal devices and cloud services, then the quantity and accessibility of digital assets increases, but the complexity of managing and locating these assets increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a personal cloud manager as an intermediary system that sits between multiple personal devices and cloud services. This manager automatically tracks usage information from all devices, aggregates digital asset locations, and provides a unified interface for accessing assets. The intermediary handles the complexity of managing scattered digital assets across multiple devices and services, while users experience simplified access through the manager's interface.
2Adaptability or versatility
If usage information is automatically gathered from multiple devices, then the ability to provide personalized recommendations improves, but the amount of data to be processed and stored increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential usage information needed for personalization from the vast amount of data generated by multiple devices. The personal cloud manager selectively collects usage patterns, access times, and preference information while filtering out redundant data. This extraction approach enables personalized recommendations to be generated without requiring processing and storage of all raw usage data from every device.
3Adaptability or versatility
If sensors track situational characteristics for situation-aware recommendations, then the relevance of content recommendations improves, but the device complexity and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the personal cloud manager a universal system that consolidates the situation-tracking functionality across all personal devices. Instead of each device independently running sensors and tracking algorithms (which would consume energy on every device), the manager performs centralized situation analysis using data from all devices. This multi-functional approach provides situation-aware recommendations while reducing overall energy consumption by eliminating redundant tracking operations on individual devices.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments provide a method for maintaining digital assets of a user. The digital assets reside on at least one device and/or at least one cloud. The method further comprises aggregating the digital assets, and obtaining information identifying digital assets available for access by an access device. The digital assets available for access by the access device include a digital asset residing on a cloud or on a device other than the access device.