Pluggable Image Sharing Service Architecture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for sharing content across various devices are limited and difficult to use, lacking efficiency in uploading and downloading images between mobile devices and other sources.
Innovation Solution
A service that automatically uploads and downloads images between mobile devices and targets, featuring a pluggable architecture that allows for easy addition of new targets and includes components for configuration, monitoring, uploading, and downloading, with error management and user preferences for content handling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If automatic image upload and download service is implemented, then content sharing efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The service is divided into separate functional components: a collector that gathers images from mobile devices, a director that determines transfer criteria and selects targets, and forwarders that handle specific target communications. This segmentation allows each component to perform its function independently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high automation efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a intermediary service architecture between mobile devices and multiple targets (social networks, messaging services, etc.). This intermediary layer handles the complexity of different communication protocols and transfer criteria centrally, allowing mobile devices to remain simple while achieving efficient automated sharing across diverse platforms.
2Adaptability or versatility
If pluggable architecture with multiple forwarders is used, then adaptability to new targets is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The director component serves multiple functions: it collects images from mobile devices, determines which images meet transfer criteria, selects appropriate targets, and coordinates with various forwarders. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated components for each target type, maintaining adaptability while controlling complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The architecture allows dynamic addition of new forwarders for emerging targets without requiring changes to the core collector and director components. New forwarders can be plugged in as needed, enabling the system to adapt to new platforms and services while maintaining a stable, manageable core architecture.
3Ease of operation
If automatic image transfer based on criteria is implemented, then ease of operation is improved, but loss of information increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where the director receives confirmation from forwarders about image transfer status and criteria compliance. This feedback loop ensures that automated transfers accurately reflect user intentions and allows for correction of any information loss or transfer errors, maintaining both ease of operation and transfer accuracy.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to content sharing for mobile devices. In aspects, images that are created using mobile devices may be automatically uploaded to one or more targets. In addition, images created on the one or more targets may be automatically downloaded to the mobile device based on one or more criteria. A service facilitates transfer of images in both directions and includes a pluggable architecture in which forwarders for new targets may be added.