Secure Data Storage via Local and Remote Dual Mechanisms
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing data storage solutions for media receivers, such as set top boxes and routers, are vulnerable to data loss due to unplugging, resetting, or device damage, as they rely solely on local storage, which lacks redundancy and security.
Innovation Solution
Integrating a storage device with the receiver, allowing data to be stored both locally and on a remote distributed storage network, such as a cloud storage network, ensuring data security and consistency through dual storage mechanisms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If data is stored locally on the receiver, then data access speed is improved, but data security deteriorates due to vulnerability to device unplugging, resetting, or damage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides data storage into two separate locations: local storage on the receiver and remote storage on a distributed storage network. This segmentation allows the system to maintain fast local access while simultaneously ensuring data security through remote backup, resolving the contradiction between speed and reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a copy of the data and stores it on a remote distributed storage network. This copying mechanism ensures that even if the local receiver is compromised, the data can be recovered from the remote copy, thus maintaining both fast local access and data security.
2Reliability
If remote distributed storage network is used, then data security is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The receiver automatically performs data synchronization with the remote distributed storage network without requiring user intervention. The system self-manages the complexity of remote storage operations, providing data security while keeping the user interface simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a receiver as an intermediary device that manages the interaction between the user and the complex distributed storage network. The receiver handles all remote storage operations, shielding the user from system complexity while maintaining data security.
3Device complexity
If local storage only is used, then device complexity is reduced, but data availability deteriorates in case of device failure or theft
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments storage functionality into local and remote components, allowing the system to maintain simple local device operations while ensuring data availability through separate remote storage on a distributed network, protecting against device failure or theft.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary data backup to the remote distributed storage network before device failure or theft occurs. This preliminary action ensures data availability is maintained even when the local device becomes unavailable, without adding significant complexity to the local device.
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AI summary
A computer-implemented method for secure data storage is described. In one embodiment, the method may include receiving data at a receiver. The method may further include integrating a storage device with the receiver, and storing the received data on the integrated storage device. The method may further include communicating the received data from the integrated storage device to be stored on a remote distributed storage network.