Remote Display Content Updates Using URL Rewriting Rules
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Solution Overview
Problem
As the size of a fleet of digital displays and human-machine interfaces increases, the cost and effort required for updating digital content across these devices become substantial, and coordinating timely content changes become difficult, leading to inefficiencies in content management.
Innovation Solution
A system architecture utilizing a server instance, Application Programming Interface (API), and associated program code that enables deploying and updating content across a fleet of resources, including local devices and a server computer, through periodic communication over a network, using a content delivery network (CDN) and a mapping database to manage and distribute content efficiently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If digital content is generated and stored at each device during install or repair procedure, then each device can operate independently, but the cost and effort associated with updating content increases dramatically as fleet size increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a centralized content repository where master content copies are stored. When content needs updating, the system creates and distributes copies of updated content to multiple devices simultaneously through network transmission, eliminating the need for physical media updates at each device location.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a content management server as an intermediary between the content source and end devices. This server handles content storage, processing, and distribution, acting as a mediator that coordinates content updates across the entire fleet of devices through centralized control.
2Ease of operation
If content is updated at each device individually, then device autonomy is maintained, but total update time increases and coordination of content changes becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-processing and staging content updates on the content management server before distribution. The system prepares content packages, validates them, and queues them for distribution in advance, so that when updates are deployed to devices, they can be applied efficiently without prolonged downtime.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables continuous content distribution through the content management server, which can push updates to multiple devices simultaneously or in coordinated sequences. This maintains continuous useful action by ensuring that content updates propagate through the fleet without interruption to overall system operation.
3Adaptability or versatility
If content updates are performed without centralized coordination, then device independence is preserved, but timely and coordinated content changes across the fleet cannot be achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where devices report their content status, update readiness, and operational state to the content management server. The server uses this feedback information to coordinate updates optimally, determining which devices should receive updates and when, thereby maintaining device independence while achieving fleet-wide coordination.
Data Source
AI summary
Technologies are disclosed herein for providing content management for deploying and updating a fleet of resources. A system for providing content management may include a web server or other apparatus configured to receive a local content request from a local device of a fleet of resources, the local content request comprising a canonical uniform resource locator (URL) that uniquely identifies the local device. The web server may be further configured to analyze the local content request to determine if the URL matches one or more rewrite rules, formulate a response to the local content request based on the analyzing, and transmit the formulated response.