Real-Time Content Sharing via Server Intermediary
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods struggle to share real-time content data between electronic devices without requiring the target device to install specific applications or access accounts, limiting seamless data transmission in IoT environments.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a display, communication circuit, and processor receives a list of registered external devices, selects one, generates real-time content, uploads it to a second server, and transmits necessary information for the external device to access the content through a first server, enabling remote sharing without the need for additional applications on the external device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If real-time content data is shared through a streaming service application, then content data can be transmitted in real time, but the target device must install the application and access it through an account
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary that stores real-time content data and provides it to external devices. Instead of requiring direct application-based sharing between devices, the server acts as a mediator that receives content from the electronic device and distributes it to authorized external devices, eliminating the need for target devices to install specific applications or access accounts
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the authentication and content distribution functionality from the target device and relocates it to the server. The server handles account verification, content storage, and distribution logic, allowing external devices to access content without having the application installed locally. This separates the content sharing function from the target device's software requirements
2Adaptability or versatility
If content is shared without requiring target device to install applications, then ease of operation improves, but reliable content transmission becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The server serves as a reliable intermediary that ensures content transmission reliability through centralized control. It authenticates external devices against stored account information, manages content distribution rights, and ensures that only authorized devices can access the content. This intermediary approach maintains reliability while enabling broad device compatibility
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary authentication and authorization actions before content transmission. The server verifies the external device's credentials and grants access rights in advance, ensuring that content is transmitted only to authorized devices. This preliminary verification mechanism guarantees transmission reliability without requiring the target device to have the application installed
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device comprises: a display; a communication circuit; a memory; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor may: receive, from a first server, a list of at least one external device registered with the first server, display the list through the display; receive a selection input for a first external device included in the list; obtain information for providing real-time content from a second server to the first external device; generate real-time content data; upload the real-time content data to the second server through the communication circuit while generating the real-time content data; and transmit at least a part of the information to the first external device through the first server such that the first external device can obtain the real-time content data. In addition, other various embodiments appreciated from the specification are also possible.