Adapting Content Composites to Endpoint Media Device Operations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content delivery systems face challenges in adapting content items for endpoint media devices, particularly in non-linear content delivery modes like IP packet streams and ATSC 3.0 standards, which require deeper integration with devices and improved viewer experiences.
Innovation Solution
The system creates a content composite by processing devices, which includes an adaptable content item for audio and/or video content. This composite is transmitted to endpoint media devices, where operations can be performed on the content items, and communication is processed to adapt subsequent content composites based on observed device operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content delivery uses traditional linear modes (ATSC 1.0, cable TV), then system simplicity is maintained, but adaptability to endpoint devices and viewer experience customization deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The content delivery system is segmented into modular components: content compositing modules that create adaptive content packages, packetization modules that segment content into transmittable units, and endpoint devices that independently process and adapt content. This segmentation enables the system to handle complex adaptive content delivery while maintaining manageable system architecture through clear separation of functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements dynamic content adaptation where content composites are modified in real-time based on endpoint device capabilities and user interactions. The content delivery system transitions from static linear delivery to dynamic adaptive delivery, where content packets can be reconfigured, reprioritized, and reassembled at the endpoint based on observed operations and device state changes.
2Ease of operation
If content delivery uses IP packet streams with adaptive compositing, then viewer experience customization is improved, but measurement and detection of device operations becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where endpoint devices report observed operations and content consumption patterns back to the content delivery system. This feedback enables the system to detect and measure device operations indirectly through reported metrics, maintaining ease of operation for viewers while providing the measurement capability needed for adaptive content compositing and delivery optimization.
3Adaptability or versatility
If real-time content adaptation is implemented based on device operations, then service tailoring is improved, but processing requirements and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary content compositing and packetization before delivery, preparing multiple adaptive content variants in advance based on predicted device capabilities and user preferences. This preliminary action reduces real-time processing requirements at the endpoint by pre-computing adaptation options, thereby enabling service tailoring while managing processing complexity through advance preparation.
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AI summary
Systems, methods, and machine-readable media for adapting content items to device operations of an endpoint media device are disclosed. A first content composite may be created by one or more processing devices for delivery in a packet stream from a content provider system via one or more networks, where the first content composite may include an adaptable content item corresponding to a set of one or more audio and/or video packets corresponding to audio and/or video content. The first content composite may be transmitted, where, consequent to delivery of the first content composite to a first endpoint media device or a second endpoint media device, the first endpoint media device or the second endpoint media device may perform one operation relating to a second content item of the first content composite, where the adaptable content item may be modified based on the second content item.