Pre-positioning Streaming Content on Communication Devices

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Solution Overview

Problem

The challenge lies in pre-positioning streaming content on communication devices without incurring high costs and bandwidth usage, especially in scenarios where network connectivity is limited or unavailable, such as during flights, rural areas, or remote vacations, which often results in disabled content recommendations and reduced accessibility.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that facilitate pre-positioning multimedia content on communication devices based on usage preferences, network criteria, and device capabilities, allowing content to be pre-loaded during low network traffic or defined network conditions, ensuring quick access and reducing bandwidth usage during peak demand.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If streaming content is downloaded onto communication devices, then content accessibility and quick access are improved, but bandwidth usage and costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent accessibilityVSAvoidbandwidth usage

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-positioning streaming content onto communication devices before the user actually needs to access it. The network device proactively transfers content to the communication device based on predicted user preferences and usage patterns, so that when the user wants to watch content, it is already available locally without requiring bandwidth-intensive on-demand downloading.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If streaming content is downloaded onto communication devices, then content availability is improved, but network connectivity requirements worsen the problem in remote areas

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent availabilityVSAvoidnetwork connectivity requirement

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If content recommendations are enabled, then user experience is improved, but bandwidth usage and costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser experienceVSAvoidbandwidth usage

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables the communication device to serve itself by autonomously downloading content based on its own usage patterns and preferences. The device monitors its own content consumption behavior, predicts what content the user will want next, and automatically downloads that content without requiring the network device to continuously push recommendations or wait for user requests, thereby reducing unnecessary bandwidth usage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

4Ease of operation

If streaming content is pre-positioned during low network traffic, then content accessibility is improved, but network strain during peak demand increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent accessibilityVSAvoidnetwork strain

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11336938B2Pre-positioning of streaming content onto communication devices for future content recommendations

Publication Date: 2022.05.17 AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I L P

AI summary

Facilitating pre-positioning of streaming content onto communication devices is provided herein. A system can comprise a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can comprise facilitating an identification of a first multimedia content stream and a second multimedia content stream. The identification can be based on a usage preference of a defined entity associated with a communication device. The operations can also comprise, in response to a determination that an available network satisfies a defined network criterion, facilitating pre-positioning, at a data store of the communication device, the first multimedia content stream and the second multimedia content stream.