Session Controller for Real-Time Content Sharing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current interactive service systems face challenges in seamlessly sharing content between devices, particularly in maintaining interactive services while transmitting and receiving content-related information, especially when multiple devices are involved in the sharing process.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for sharing content that utilizes a network of communication devices, where a first communication device transmits a content share request to a second device, and upon acceptance, it broadcasts the request to peripheral devices, allowing for real-time content sharing while maintaining interactive services through protocols like SIP and RTP, enabling seamless content reproduction and storage across connected devices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If content sharing is implemented between devices during interactive service, then content sharing capability is improved, but system complexity increases due to coordination between multiple devices

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent sharing capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a session controller as an intermediary component that manages content sharing between devices. The session controller receives content share requests, identifies target devices, and coordinates the sharing process, thereby reducing the complexity burden on individual communication devices while enabling versatile content sharing across multiple devices.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system divides content sharing functionality into separate modular components: session management (session controller), content transmission (communication modules), and device identification (identifier management). This segmentation allows each component to handle specific tasks independently, improving content sharing capability while keeping individual component complexities manageable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If real-time content sharing is enabled during interactive service, then user experience is improved, but loss of time occurs due to device selection and coordination overhead

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent sharing efficiencyVSAvoiddevice coordination time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary device identification and session setup before actual content sharing begins. The session controller pre-identifies available devices and establishes communication channels in advance, so when content sharing is requested, the coordination overhead is minimal and real-time sharing can proceed without significant time loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where devices broadcast their availability status and content share requests trigger automatic responses from target devices. This feedback loop enables rapid device selection and coordination, reducing the time required to establish content sharing sessions while maintaining real-time sharing capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP2688268B1Sharing content
Publication Date: 2019.12.25 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A method and system for sharing content, by which an experience is shared between users in real-time based on an interactive service between devices is provided. The method includes: receiving content-related information from at least one peripheral device reproducing content to be shared while an interactive service is being provided; and transmitting the content-related information to at least one second communication device connected to a first communication device by the interactive service based on the received content-related information.