Adaptive On-Board Media Channel Interface for Capacity Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional methods for delivering media content to transport craft passengers often result in a poor balance between minimizing network resource usage and maximizing customer satisfaction, as passengers are either limited in off-board network access or face high fees, leading to unsatisfactory media consumption experiences due to excessive or insufficient media channel offerings.

Innovation Solution

An adaptive media channel interface system that monitors viewership data to dynamically update the graphical prominence of media channel offerings based on aggregated viewership scores, ensuring that high-relevance options are prominently displayed, reducing network capacity utilization and enhancing passenger satisfaction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If all media channel offerings are displayed to passengers, then passenger choice and satisfaction are improved, but network capacity utilization increases and choice overload occurs

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemedia channel offeringsVSAvoidnetwork capacity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by displaying different numbers and types of media channel offerings to different passengers based on their individual preferences, viewing history, and demographic characteristics. Instead of a uniform approach, each passenger receives a customized interface that highlights media channels most relevant to them, thereby maintaining high satisfaction while reducing overall network capacity consumption across the fleet.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts the media channel offerings displayed to each passenger based on real-time and historical viewership data. The interface updates prominence parameters, ordering, and selection of displayed channels as passenger preferences evolve or as network conditions change, allowing the system to optimize between passenger satisfaction and network resource usage continuously.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Loss of energy

If limited media channel offerings are displayed, then network capacity is conserved, but passenger satisfaction decreases due to insufficient choices

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenetwork capacityVSAvoidmedia consumption experience

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of energyVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by continuously monitoring passenger media consumption patterns, preferences, and satisfaction indicators. This feedback is used to dynamically adjust which media channels are displayed and with what prominence, ensuring that the limited set of displayed channels remains highly relevant and satisfying to each passenger while conserving network capacity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables passengers to effectively serve their own information needs by providing interfaces that automatically prioritize and display media channels aligned with their demonstrated preferences. The system self-adjusts based on aggregated fleet-wide data, allowing each passenger to experience a personalized, satisfaction-optimized interface without requiring manual configuration or overwhelming choice sets.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Ease of operation

If personalized media recommendations are implemented, then passenger satisfaction is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemedia selection processVSAvoidinterface control system

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and storing passenger preference profiles, viewing history, and demographic data before the actual media selection occurs. This advance preparation allows the interface to quickly and efficiently display personalized recommendations without requiring complex real-time computations during the passenger's interaction, thereby simplifying the operational experience while managing system complexity through upfront data organization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20250330659A1Adaptive on-board media channel interface

Publication Date: 2025.10.23 VIASAT INC

AI summary

Techniques are described for adaptive control of media channel interfaces for delivery of media content over communications systems to transport craft passengers. Embodiments monitor viewership of various media channel offerings provided to transport craft passengers to compute aggregated viewership scores. Based on the scores, respective prominence parameters associated with the various media channel offerings can be automatically updated. Interface control signals can be communicated to cause media channel interfaces being displayed on passenger devices to dynamically and automatically update the graphical listings of the media channel offerings in accordance with the updates to their respective prominence parameters. Dynamically updating the graphical prominence of different media channel offerings can tend to make passengers more likely to view a smaller subset of the media channel offerings, thereby helping to maintain high passenger satisfaction with less network capacity demand.