Predictive Media Transfer to User-Carried Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
End users face challenges in consuming media content offline due to the dependency on network connections, which are often unreliable or unavailable, such as during commercial airline flights, and the cumbersome process of transferring media content to local storage.
Innovation Solution
Automating the transfer of media content to user-carried memory components by predicting offline viewing events, such as upcoming flights, through determining media transfer start conditions and initiating the transfer process from a media content server to a user-carried device or external storage, using algorithms that monitor user travel plans and adjust for factors like flight departure times and network availability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If media content is transferred to local memory for offline playback, then availability of media content without network connection is improved, but user convenience deteriorates due to the cumbersome transfer process
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically transferring media content to local memory in advance of predicted offline viewing events. The system monitors user calendars and travel plans to forecast when offline playback will be needed, then initiates transfers before the user needs the content, eliminating the need for manual intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The system serves itself by automatically managing the entire transfer process without user intervention. It monitors user schedules, predicts offline viewing needs, selects appropriate content, and executes transfers autonomously, allowing the system to take care of content availability management on its own.
2Ease of operation
If media content transfer is manual and user-initiated, then control over transfer timing is improved, but time management deteriorates as users may forget to transfer content in advance
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses feedback from user calendars and travel plans to automatically adjust transfer timing. It continuously monitors scheduled events and flight information, then uses this feedback to predict when offline content will be needed and schedules transfers accordingly, ensuring content is ready without user intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The system takes preliminary action by automatically scheduling and executing transfers before predicted offline viewing events occur. By monitoring user schedules in advance and initiating transfers proactively, the system ensures content is ready without requiring users to remember or manually schedule transfers.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple copies of media content are allowed on different devices, then accessibility is improved, but license management complexity increases due to single copy licenses
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates copies of media content on user-carried devices while managing license compliance. It transfers content to local memory or portable devices, enabling offline playback across multiple devices while the licensing system tracks and manages the copies to ensure compliance with single-copy license terms.
Data Source
AI summary
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for automatically scheduling and carrying-out the transfer of media content to user-carried storage components in anticipation of predicted user needs. In various embodiments, the method includes the step or function of determining when an offline viewing event is forecast to occur due to an anticipated desire on behalf of the end user to view media content in a future timeframe without reliance on a network connection. When determining that an offline viewing event is forecast to occur, media transfer start conditions are established for initiating transfer of selected media content to a user-carried memory component prior to the forecast occurrence of the offline viewing event. When the media transfer start conditions are subsequently satisfied, transfer of the selected media content is initiated from a media content server, over a network, and to the user-carried memory component.