Asynchronous Comment System for On-Demand Content Playback
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Solution Overview
Problem
As entertainment content becomes increasingly non-linear and available on-demand, achieving interactivity and community consumption during asynchronous viewing of content, such as TV shows or movies, becomes difficult due to the lack of effective methods for asynchronous interaction and commentary.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for recording and providing asynchronous comments at specific times during audiovisual content playback, involving a vault server, edge server, and user devices that enable users to leave and receive comments linked to specific points in the content, allowing for asynchronous commentary and messaging among users, even when they view or listen to content at different times.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content is made available on-demand and viewed asynchronously, then user flexibility and accessibility are improved, but interactivity and community consumption become difficult to achieve
Solution Approach 1:
The system records comments along with their temporal metadata at the moment they are made during content playback. This preliminary action of capturing and storing comment data with time information enables asynchronous delivery later, resolving the contradiction by allowing users to view content at different times while still experiencing community interaction.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback to users by delivering recorded comments to them at the appropriate time during their content viewing. This feedback mechanism creates a closed loop where community interactions are captured and returned to users asynchronously, maintaining interactivity despite the on-demand viewing model.
2Reliability
If comments are recorded and provided to users at specific times, then community engagement and shared experience are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the content playback timeline into discrete time intervals and records comments at specific points within this timeline. By segmenting the continuous viewing experience into manageable temporal segments with associated comment data, the system can reliably deliver comments at the correct moments without requiring overly complex real-time processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary layer (the comment recording and delivery mechanism) between the content delivery system and the user interaction layer. This intermediary handles the complexity of temporal correlation and comment routing, allowing community engagement to be maintained while isolating the complexity from the core content delivery function.
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AI summary
Systems, devices, and methods for allowing comments to be input at specific points in delivered content are provided. The systems, devices and methods may comprise specific content items, at least one request from a device for interacting with the specific content, and a comment provided by at least one user via the device in relation to the interacted one of the specific content. The comment may be recorded and later provided at the point of the comment to a second user while the second user plays back the specific content.