Token-Verifiable Proxy Uploader for Secure Media Upload
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing fitness technologies fail to provide comprehensive and integrated systems for capturing and analyzing athletic performance data, including geographic information, and securely uploading media files while maintaining user privacy and security.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses sensors attached to users or clothing to generate performance data, which is transmitted to a server for analysis, including leaderboards and user interactions, and employs a token-verifiable proxy uploader to securely upload media files without exposing user credentials, allowing image analytics and tagging before sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If sensors are attached to users to capture comprehensive performance data, then measurement precision and data completeness are improved, but device complexity and user burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the fitness tracking functionality into separate modules: sensors attached to clothing or equipment, a mobile device for data collection and initial processing, and a server for comprehensive analysis. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while reducing the burden on the user.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses a multi-functional architecture where the same sensor infrastructure captures various types of athletic data (performance metrics, geographic information, video), and the server provides multiple services including analysis, leaderboard generation, and media file management, eliminating the need for separate specialized devices.
2Reliability
If user credentials are transmitted for validation, then security and authorization are improved, but user privacy and security exposure increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces a proxy server as an intermediary between the user's mobile device and the media sharing site. The proxy server handles the upload process and credential validation, allowing the user to authenticate once with the proxy server and then upload files without directly exposing credentials to the media sharing site or other users.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary validation of user credentials through the proxy server before the actual media file upload occurs. The proxy server verifies the upload token and user authorization in advance, ensuring that only authenticated users can access the upload functionality while keeping credentials secure.
3Loss of information
If comprehensive performance data and media files are uploaded, then data completeness and analysis capability are improved, but transmission time and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary processing and compression of media files and performance data on the mobile device before upload. Image analytics are conducted locally to generate tags and metadata, and video files are pre-processed, reducing the amount of data that needs to be transmitted while preserving the essential information for comprehensive analysis.
Solution Approach 2:
The proxy server acts as an efficient intermediary that manages the upload process, optimizing data transmission by handling authentication, managing upload queues, and coordinating with the media sharing site to minimize transmission time while ensuring complete data transfer.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables comprehensive athletic performance analysis, secure data sharing, and user engagement through leaderboards and performance zone feedback, while ensuring user privacy and security in data transmission and storage.
Implementation Method 1
Sensors may include accelerometers, pressure sensors, gyroscopes and other sensors that can transform physical activity into electrical signals
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AI summary
A token-verifiable proxy uploader is disclosed. A token request may be transmitted from an end-user communication device for requesting an upload token from a hosted services server that is configured to authorize transmission of a first media file to a hosted proxy server. The upload token may be transmitted to the end-user communication device. Validation of the user of the end-user communication device may be conducted without the end-user device providing any credentials to the media sharing site and in which the end-user device is does not transmit any credentials specific to the media sharing site as part of the validation. The token validation call may be in response to the hosted proxy server receiving the upload token and either: (1) the first media file from the end-user communication device; or (2) a request from the end-user communication device to upload the first media file to the hosted proxy server.