Server-Based Web Page Synchronization Across Smart Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in seamlessly accessing and synchronizing web pages across multiple smart devices, as existing technologies lack efficient methods for continuous play services, leading to lower accuracy in re-accessing previously viewed content and challenges in synchronizing bookmarks between different devices operating on various operating systems.
Innovation Solution
A user terminal apparatus and server apparatus system that provides a continuous play service by receiving user information, obtaining web page information from multiple devices, and transmitting it to the user terminal, allowing for display and access of previously viewed web pages, including features like thumbnail images, classification, and automatic updating based on user interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If web page information is manually bookmarked on each device, then users can access previously viewed content, but the process requires explicit user actions and does not automatically synchronize across multiple devices
Solution Approach 1:
The server apparatus proactively collects web page information from multiple user terminal apparatuses before the user needs to access it. By pre-gathering and storing web page URLs, titles, and thumbnail images on the server, the system eliminates the need for users to manually bookmark on each device, automatically preparing the information for quick retrieval and display on any connected device.
2Adaptability or versatility
If web page synchronization is implemented across multiple devices, then users can access content from any device, but the system complexity increases due to multiple devices and operating systems
Solution Approach 1:
The server apparatus acts as an intermediary between multiple user terminal apparatuses, centralizing the web page information storage and management. Instead of implementing complex peer-to-peer synchronization across multiple devices and operating systems, all web page data (URLs, titles, thumbnails) are collected and managed on the server, which then distributes relevant information to any requesting device, greatly simplifying the system architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The server apparatus provides a universal platform that handles web page information collection, storage, and distribution for multiple types of user terminal apparatuses simultaneously. By creating a device-agnostic system where the server manages all synchronization logic, the solution achieves cross-platform compatibility without requiring device-specific implementations, supporting various operating systems and device types through a single unified approach.
3Quantity of substance
If all accessed web pages are stored and transmitted to every device, then users can access any previously viewed page, but the data transmission and processing volume increases
Solution Approach 1:
The server apparatus filters and transmits only the specific web page information relevant to each user terminal apparatus based on user information matching. Instead of broadcasting all collected web page data to every device, the system identifies which web pages were accessed by which devices and selectively transmits only those relevant records, reducing unnecessary data transmission and processing energy consumption while maintaining complete availability of needed information.
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a method of providing, by a server apparatus, a continuous play service, the method including receiving user information from a first user terminal apparatus, obtaining at least one piece of web page information corresponding to the user information, and transmitting the at least one piece of web page information to the first user terminal apparatus such that the at least one piece of web page information is displayed on a screen of the first user terminal apparatus, wherein the at least one piece of web page information includes information about at least one web page previously accessed by a plurality of second user terminal apparatuses including the first user terminal apparatus.