Streaming Data Server Format Customization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current streaming data delivery to mobile devices lacks customization options, leading to inefficient data transmission and memory burden, as users cannot easily select formats like audio only or video only, and both streaming and podcast formats require specific players, causing performance issues.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that allow users to customize streaming data formats, schedule delivery, and reformat data according to user settings, using a streaming data server and management server to push packaged data to mobile devices based on user preferences, including format, time, and location, thereby optimizing data transmission and reducing memory usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If streaming data is sent in real-time without storage, then bandwidth usage is reduced, but the user cannot customize the format and must watch immediately
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-processing and reformatting streaming data into multiple format versions before delivery to the mobile device. The server prepares audio-only, video-only, and combined formats in advance, allowing the user to select their preferred format without requiring real-time conversion, thus reducing bandwidth usage while maintaining format adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the streaming data into separate audio and video components, allowing independent formatting and delivery. This segmentation enables the server to create multiple version variants (audio-only, video-only, combined) from the same source content, resolving the contradiction between bandwidth efficiency and format customization flexibility.
2Ease of operation
If complete files are delivered for later playback, then user can replay content, but memory burden increases and performance decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential replay capability from complete file delivery. Instead of storing entire high-resolution files, the system delivers compressed streaming data that can be replayed, extracting the core functionality while removing the excessive memory burden associated with storing complete uncompressed files.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies parameter changes by adjusting the data format and compression parameters of streaming content to enable replay functionality. The streaming data is formatted with appropriate metadata and structure that allows replay without requiring full-file storage, changing the parameters from traditional podcast formats to optimized streaming formats.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple format versions are stored on mobile device, then format flexibility is improved, but memory consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements universality by creating a single multi-functional data structure that can represent multiple format versions. The streaming data is packaged with flexible formatting that allows the same data file to be rendered in different formats (audio-only, video-only, combined) based on user selection, eliminating the need to store separate format versions and thus reducing memory consumption while maintaining format flexibility.
Data Source
AI summary
Various embodiments for a system and method for providing streaming data to a device are provided herein. In one example, a method comprises receiving a request for streaming data from a mobile device, receiving settings with regards to the delivery of the streaming data to the mobile device, retrieving the streaming data from a source of the streaming data, reformatting the streaming data for the mobile device according to the settings and sending the reformatted streaming data to the mobile device in accordance with the settings.