Real-Time Content File Structure for Streaming Storage

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional streaming technologies cannot store, manage, or reuse multimedia data in a completed form, especially for real-time generated content, as they require a complete file format known in advance, limiting their utility and reusability.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus for generating and playing contents files that separate contents configuration and real-time service information, allowing for the creation of a file structure that can be stored and reused, using a format like the ISO/IEC 14496-12 standard, where real-time service information is embedded within the file, enabling real-time generation, storage, and delivery of data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Speed

If conventional streaming technology is used to transmit real-time generated data, then real-time delivery is achieved, but the data cannot be stored, managed, or reused in a completed form

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvereal-time delivery speedVSAvoiddata reusability and storability

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the content file into distinct components: file information (including configuration data), content data, and real-time service related information. This segmentation allows each component to be independently processed, stored, and reused while maintaining the integrity of the overall streaming structure. The file information and real-time service information serve as metadata that enables future retrieval and reprocessing of the content data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent performs preliminary actions by embedding file information and real-time service related information within the content file during the streaming process. This preliminary structuring of data with embedded metadata enables the received data to be automatically processed, stored, and reused without requiring additional processing steps later. The configuration information is prepared in advance within the file structure to facilitate future operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Device complexity

If a complete file format is required in advance for file downloading service, then file management is simplified, but real-time generated data with unknown final form cannot be provided

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefile format structureVSAvoidflexibility for unknown data forms

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a dynamic file structure where the content file is constructed during the streaming process rather than requiring a predetermined complete format. The file information and real-time service related information are added dynamically as the streaming progresses, allowing the final data form to be determined during generation rather than requiring advance specification. This dynamic construction enables both structured management and flexibility for unknown final forms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a universal file structure that can accommodate various types of real-time generated data with unknown final forms. The standardized content file format with embedded file information and real-time service related information fields can hold diverse content types while maintaining a consistent structure. This multi-functional structure serves both as a container for real-time streaming and as a manageable file format for storage and reuse.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Productivity

If streaming data is transmitted without embedded configuration information, then transmission efficiency is improved, but the reception side cannot process or reuse the data

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetransmission efficiencyVSAvoiddata processing and reuse capability

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the content data with file information and real-time service related information into a single integrated content file. By combining the actual content with its metadata and configuration information in one file structure, the system achieves both efficient transmission (as a single unit) and ease of processing (with all necessary information embedded). The merged structure eliminates the need for separate metadata files while enabling full processing capability at the reception side.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS8983906B2Method and apparatus for creating/playing a content file

Publication Date: 2015.03.17 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

A real-time service method and apparatus for providing information generated in real-time mode are provided. The method includes generating, by a file generator a contents file including contents configuration related information and real-time service related information such that the contents configuration related information and the real-time service related information are separated within the contents file; and transmitting, by a transmitter, the generated file to a receiving device.