Audience Customized Broadcast Delivery System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current broadcast media technologies lack the ability to dynamically adjust content delivery based on real-time viewer preferences and selections, leading to inefficient use of resources and a lack of personalized entertainment experiences.

Innovation Solution

A system that collects and analyzes user selection data from individual receivers to alter operational parameters of content streams, allowing for real-time or near-real-time adjustments in signal strength, direction, and content offerings to better match audience preferences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If traditional broadcast media delivers content collectively to all receivers, then resource allocation efficiency is improved, but the ability to satisfy individual viewer preferences deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource allocation efficiencyVSAvoidability to satisfy individual viewer preferences
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The broadcast audience is segmented into multiple target populations or demographic groups based on viewer preferences and selections. Each segment receives customized content tailored to its specific interests, allowing the system to simultaneously serve diverse individual preferences while maintaining efficient resource allocation through targeted delivery.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The broadcast system dynamically adjusts content delivery parameters in real-time based on received viewer selection data. The system can modify signal strength, direction, and content offerings on-demand, transitioning from static collective broadcasting to dynamic personalized delivery that adapts to changing viewer preferences.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If individualized content selection is provided to each viewer, then viewer preference satisfaction is improved, but the ability to broadcast collectively to target audiences deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveviewer preference satisfactionVSAvoidcollective broadcast capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges individualized content selection data from multiple viewers to identify collective preferences and target populations. By aggregating individual selections and analyzing patterns across the audience, the system determines optimal collective broadcast parameters that satisfy the majority while maintaining efficient resource utilization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The broadcast system incorporates feedback loops that continuously monitor viewer selections and preferences. This feedback mechanism allows the system to adjust collective broadcast parameters based on real-time audience response, ensuring that personalized content delivery does not compromise the ability to serve the broader target audience effectively.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If real-time viewer selection data is collected and analyzed, then content delivery customization is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent delivery customizationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces intermediary components such as data collection devices, analysis systems, and signal processing units that mediate between viewer selections and broadcast delivery. These intermediary elements simplify the overall architecture by breaking down the complex task of real-time customization into manageable functional modules that can be implemented systematically.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS8813110B2Dual channel audience customized broadcast delivery system and method
Publication Date: 2014.08.19 NBCUNIVERSAL MEDIA LLC
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AI summary

The broadcast of content over a unidirectional broadcast channel is adjusted by analysis of data received from receivers of the content via a bidirectional data exchange channel. The broadcast may be altered in signal, signal strength, signal direction, encoding, and so forth. The receivers may communicate the data over any suitable network, such as the Internet. The data may include past, current and planned selections of content, as well as geographic and demographic information, when available.