Streaming Content Delivery Management for Wireless Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
The heavy bandwidth consumption required for streaming media content over wireless communication devices leads to quality of service degradation, as existing solutions do not effectively manage bandwidth based on how content is being used, often reducing bit rates unnecessarily.
Innovation Solution
A wireless communication device monitors the screen arrangement and determines the coverage of each window, initiating a packet to cease transmission of streaming content in covered windows, allowing for dynamic bandwidth management by specifying the source packet address and port, thereby preserving bandwidth.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If the bit rate of streaming content is reduced to control bandwidth consumption, then bandwidth usage decreases, but the quality of the video feed degrades
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the streaming content delivery by identifying and suspending individual content streams based on their visibility status. Instead of reducing the bit rate of all streams uniformly, the system divides the content delivery into active (visible) and inactive (covered) streams, suspending only the latter to conserve bandwidth while maintaining quality for visible content.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality control by differentiating treatment for different content streams based on their display status. Visible windows receive full-quality streaming while covered windows have their streams suspended. This localized approach ensures that bandwidth is conserved only where content is not being viewed, rather than degrading quality across all content.
2Loss of energy
If bandwidth is reduced by lowering bit rate, then bandwidth consumption decreases, but more bandwidth than necessary is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic bandwidth management by continuously monitoring the visibility status of content windows and adjusting the streaming state accordingly. Streams are dynamically suspended when windows become covered and dynamically reactivated when windows become visible again. This dynamic approach optimizes bandwidth usage in real-time based on actual content consumption patterns.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs feedback mechanisms by monitoring window coverage status and using this information to control stream suspension. The visibility state of windows provides feedback to the bandwidth management system, which then adjusts bandwidth allocation by suspending or resuming streams accordingly, ensuring efficient bandwidth utilization matched to actual user viewing behavior.
3Reliability
If streaming content is continuously transmitted, then user experience is maintained, but bandwidth consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic monitoring of window visibility status to determine when streams should be suspended or resumed. Instead of continuous transmission, the system periodically checks whether windows are covered and adjusts stream transmission accordingly, creating a rhythm of suspension and resumption that matches user viewing patterns while conserving bandwidth during periods when content is not visible.
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AI summary
A wireless communication device comprises a wireless communication interface, a user interface, and a processing system. The wireless communication interface is configured to receive streaming content from a communication system. The user interface is configured to display the streaming content in a plurality of windows. The processing system is configured to monitor a screen arrangement of the wireless communication device and determine an amount that each of the windows is covered, and if the amount exceeds a threshold value, to initiate a packet indicating a source packet address of the streaming content being displayed in the covered window. The wireless communication interface is further configured to transfer the packet to the communication system, wherein the communication system receives the packet, and in response, ceases transmission of the streaming content being displayed in the covered window to the wireless communication device.