Anticipated Success Indication for Content Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need in the communications industry to determine the likelihood of successfully downloading and executing content or software on diverse devices with varying capabilities and network conditions, as current systems lack the ability to predict compatibility and successful usage.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that specify device attributes and network attributes to receive an anticipated success indication for content transfer and software rendering, comparing it to a threshold to initiate the transfer or rendering process, and optionally modifying content encoding to enhance success rates based on anticipated network traffic.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content is transferred to diverse devices with varying capabilities, then device compatibility and user access are improved, but the reliability of successful content execution deteriorates due to unknown compatibility issues
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary compatibility assessment by comparing device attributes (processor type, memory, display resolution, operating system) against content requirements before content transfer. This advance evaluation predicts execution success and prevents incompatible content from being transferred, thereby maintaining high reliability across diverse devices.
Solution Approach 2:
A server acts as an intermediary between content sources and diverse devices. The server receives device attributes, evaluates compatibility with content requirements, and selectively facilitates or blocks content transfer based on predicted execution success, enabling broad device support while ensuring reliable content execution.
2Ease of operation
If users can download content without prior compatibility information, then ease of operation is improved, but loss of information occurs because users cannot assess download success likelihood
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback to users by displaying predicted execution success probabilities for content on their specific device. This information is generated by comparing device attributes with content requirements and presented to users before download, enabling informed decisions while maintaining simple download operations.
3Reliability
If content encoding is modified to enhance download success rates, then reliability of content delivery is improved, but device complexity increases due to dynamic encoding adjustments
Solution Approach 1:
The server dynamically modifies content encoding parameters (compression level, format, resolution) based on predicted network conditions and device attributes. By adjusting these parameters, the system optimizes download success rates for different network scenarios without requiring complex client-side processing.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, apparatuses and methods for determining success rates for the transfer and/or utilization of transmitted applications or other communicated services. An intermediary device specifies one or more device attributes of a target device, which are received at a server. The server determines an anticipated success rate for successfully transferring the requested content to the device and/or utilizing the content at the target device, and transfers an indication of the anticipated success rate to the intermediary device. The anticipated success rate indication is received at the intermediary device, which then determines whether the received anticipated success rate indication meets threshold criteria. If so, the intermediary device notifies the server to initiate the transfer of the content from the server to the target device if the threshold criteria is met.