Server Content Distribution via Device Attribute Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current content distribution systems for mobile devices face challenges in efficiently managing the installation of content across diverse device attributes, leading to increased network load and inconsistent availability of content across different devices.
Innovation Solution
A server device with a processor and communication interface that retrieves a list of content available for installation by comparing device attributes with content attributes, allowing for selective content installation across associated computing devices, and facilitates the push of installation data to selected devices based on user requests.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If content is distributed to all associated computing devices without filtering, then content availability is maximized, but network load increases and device compatibility issues arise
Solution Approach 1:
The server performs preliminary actions by comparing device attributes with content attributes before distribution, creating a compatibility list in advance. This pre-filtering process ensures that only compatible devices receive content, preventing network waste from incompatible distributions and eliminating the need for post-distribution compatibility checks.
Solution Approach 2:
Each computing device provides its own attribute information to the server, enabling the server to autonomously determine compatibility without manual intervention. The devices self-identify their capabilities and constraints, allowing the system to automatically match content to appropriate devices, reducing administrative overhead and improving distribution efficiency.
2Manufacturing precision
If content distribution is manually managed for each device, then installation precision is improved, but productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the server receives device attribute information, processes compatibility data, and generates distribution lists automatically. This closed-loop feedback process ensures accurate content-device matching while eliminating manual management steps, achieving both high precision and high productivity simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical content management processes with automated electronic systems. The server automatically compares device attributes with content attributes using electronic data processing, substituting human manual sorting and matching with efficient algorithmic processes that achieve both accuracy and speed.
3Speed
If content is pushed to all devices regardless of compatibility, then distribution speed is maximized, but device attribute compatibility is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The server performs preliminary compatibility assessments by comparing device attributes with content attributes before initiating content push operations. This pre-screening process identifies compatible devices in advance, allowing rapid targeted distribution only to devices that will successfully install and run the content, maintaining both speed and compatibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the associated computing devices into compatibility groups based on their attributes. Instead of treating all devices uniformly, the server divides them into segments that match specific content requirements, enabling parallel distribution to multiple compatible device segments simultaneously, thus maintaining high speed while ensuring compatibility for each segment.
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AI summary
A system, apparatus and method for distributing content are provided. A request to provide content available to associated computing devices is received from a computing device. A list of the content available for installation at the associated computing devices is retrieved from a content database by comparing respective device attributes of each of the associated computing devices with respective content attributes associated with the content, wherein the list further comprises indications of which respective content is available for installation at given ones of the associated computing devices. An indication of the list is transmitted to the computing device. In response, selection data indicative of a subset of the content on the list selected for installation at respective selected devices is received from the first computing device. Respective installation data for installing respective selected content is caused to be pushed to the respective selected devices.