Remote Media Supervision via Secure Brokered Communication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Parents and supervisors face challenges in monitoring and managing the consumption of digital media content by children across diverse platforms and devices, as existing technologies lack effective remote monitoring and control capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A system and protocol that enables a media management application on a remote device to monitor, manage, and control media interaction on media delivery devices, allowing supervisors to remotely observe and manage content consumption, set limits, and receive real-time updates, using secure communication protocols and data transmission mechanisms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If remote monitoring and control capabilities are implemented across diverse platforms and devices, then supervisory observation and management effectiveness is improved, but system complexity and implementation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal media management application that can monitor and control multiple types of media delivery devices (smartphones, tablets, computers, televisions, game devices) across different platforms through a single unified system, allowing supervisors to manage diverse devices without needing separate solutions for each device type
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a broker component that acts as an intermediary between media interaction applications and media management applications, facilitating communication and data transmission across different platforms and devices while abstracting away the complexity of direct device-specific implementations
2Loss of information
If real-time monitoring and control of media content consumption is implemented, then parental supervision capability is improved, but network bandwidth consumption and system resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic activity streaming where media interaction applications transmit activity data to media management applications at regular intervals or upon specific events, rather than continuously streaming all data, thus providing real-time monitoring capability while reducing network bandwidth consumption
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts and transmits only relevant activity information (media consumption data, interaction metrics) from the media delivery devices to the management application, rather than transmitting all device data, thus providing necessary supervisory information while minimizing network resource usage
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and protocols for a media management application to be used by a supervisor to monitor, manage, and control what a subject is watching, listening to, or interacting with on a media delivery device. A media interaction application executes on a media delivery device and is configured to collect media interaction data based on tracked user interactions with media content on the media delivery device. A remote media management application executes on a portable electronic device and is configured to monitor the media interaction data and further configured to issue media management instructions to the media interaction application. A communications broker executes on a first network server and is configured to provide secure communications between the media interaction application and the remote media management application. A media interaction analysis application executes on a second network server and is configured to receive the media interaction data from the media interaction application, to transform the media interaction data into summary media interaction data, and to provide the summary media interaction data to the remote media management application. The media interaction application is further configured to transmit the media interaction data to the remote media management application via the communications broker. The remote media management application is further configured to issue the media management instructions to the media interaction application via the communications broker. And the media interaction analysis application is further configured to receive the media interaction data via the communications broker.