Content Delivery via Segmented Common and Differentiating Data Streams
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Solution Overview
Problem
The delivery of digital images and content consumes significant network resources, necessitating a method to conserve bandwidth by identifying common and differentiating elements in images and transmitting them efficiently.
Innovation Solution
Analyzing data to identify common and differentiating elements, and transmitting them using separate streams, with common elements sent in a single stream and differentiating elements in separate streams, utilizing Moving Picture Experts Group Transport Stream (MPEG-TS) with Program Map Table (PMT) and Packet Identifiers (PIDs) for efficient delivery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If digital images and content are delivered to multiple devices, then image quality and content delivery are maintained, but network bandwidth and resources are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the image data into common elements and differentiating elements, transmitting them through separate data streams. This allows receiving devices to efficiently reconstruct images by combining a shared common element stream with device-specific differentiating element streams, thereby maintaining image quality while reducing redundant network bandwidth consumption.
2Adaptability or versatility
If separate data streams are transmitted to each device, then device-specific image customization is achieved, but network resource usage increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the transmission approach by combining a shared common element stream (identical for multiple devices) with individual differentiating element streams (specific to each device). This hybrid approach enables device-specific customization while minimizing network resource usage by avoiding complete duplication of identical image data across multiple streams.
3Loss of energy
If common elements are transmitted in a single stream, then bandwidth efficiency is improved, but stream complexity and device complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses copying by transmitting a single instance of common element data that can be copied and utilized by multiple receiving devices. This approach improves bandwidth efficiency by avoiding redundant transmission of identical data while the copying mechanism at receiving devices handles the complexity of combining common and differentiating elements locally.
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AI summary
Data (e.g., images, video, data fields, character strings, logos, etc.) may be analyzed to identify common elements and differentiating elements, and the elements may be respectively transmitted using different streams. For example, if two devices are receiving two video images that are nearly the same, a first data stream comprising the one or more identified common elements may be sent to them both, a second data stream comprising a portion of the one or more identified differentiating elements may be transmitted to the first device, and a third data stream comprising a different portion of the one or more identified differentiating elements may be transmitted to the second device.