Smart Streaming Service Route Selector Using Composite Context
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current streaming services are inflexible and costly due to independent development for each provider, failing to adapt to changes in user and network situations, leading to passive responses and limited user experiences across various devices and networks.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method that selects and combines unit service servers based on composite context information, including user, terminal, and service data, to dynamically provide optimized streaming services, ensuring seamless delivery across different environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If independent streaming services are provided by each provider through independent codec and platform, then service provider autonomy is maintained, but service flexibility and adaptability to user changes deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal service framework that allows multiple service providers to deliver services through a common platform. The service information management server acts as an intermediary that handles service selection, combination, and delivery across different providers, enabling one platform to serve multiple functions and providers without requiring each provider to maintain independent delivery infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The service information management server serves as an intermediary between users and multiple service providers. It receives service requests, selects appropriate unit services from different providers, combines them into composite services, and manages the delivery process. This mediator eliminates the need for direct independent platform interactions while maintaining service flexibility.
2Ease of operation
If unit services are selected directly from terminal and executed through negotiation or combination, then service customization is improved, but additional overheads and development costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The service information management server acts as a centralized intermediary that handles service selection and combination logic. Instead of terminals performing complex negotiation and combination operations, the server manages these functions centrally, reducing terminal overhead while maintaining customization capabilities through programmatic service composition.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables automated service selection and combination through the service information management server, which automatically matches user requests with appropriate unit services from multiple providers without requiring manual terminal-based negotiation. This automation reduces operational overhead while maintaining service customization.
3Ease of manufacture
If redundant development is performed for each service provider, then service provider independence is maintained, but development cost increases excessively
Solution Approach 1:
The service information management server provides a universal service delivery mechanism that can be used by multiple service providers simultaneously. Instead of each provider implementing independent service delivery infrastructure, they all utilize the same server platform, dramatically reducing redundant development costs while maintaining provider independence through modular service unit design.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the service delivery infrastructure into a shared platform managed by the service information management server. Multiple service providers' delivery functions are combined into this single infrastructure, eliminating redundant development while allowing each provider to maintain independence through their unique service units that interface with the shared system.
4Adaptability or versatility
If services are provided based on provider-centered closed service structure, then provider control is maintained, but user experience consistency across networks and terminals deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The service information management server creates a universal interface layer between diverse terminals/networks and service providers. It handles service selection, combination, and delivery in a standardized manner that works across different networks and terminal types, ensuring consistent user experience while maintaining provider control through the modular service unit architecture.
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AI summary
There is provided an apparatus for providing a smart streaming service connected to a plurality of unit services each providing a unit service through a network including: a service route selector configured to select at least one unit service server for providing at least one unit service suitable for composite context of a current user from the plurality of unit service servers, using composite context information including information on users, user terminals and unit services, and create service route information that indicates a combination of the at least one selected unit service server; and a service route processor configured to process unit service information provided by the at least one selected unit service server, based on the created service route information, and provide a smart streaming service to the user.