Audio Mediator Component for Seamless Digital Work Playback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital content systems face challenges in seamlessly managing and coordinating the presentation of multiple digital content types, such as audio and video, during user interactions, especially on mobile devices, without disrupting gameplay or user experience.
Innovation Solution
A digital work, such as a game or application, includes a component that coordinates or generates requests for audio data, allowing for the seamless playback of alternative audio content selected elsewhere, even if it interferes with the original audio content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If alternative audio data is played during digital work presentation, then user receives additional audio content, but original audio content is interrupted or interfered with
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a mediator component that sits between the audio output and the user, allowing it to intercept and replace audio data streams. This mediator can substitute alternative audio content for the original audio content without disrupting the digital work presentation, thereby enabling additional audio delivery while maintaining system stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts audio playback by detecting user interactions with the digital work and automatically switching between original and alternative audio content. This dynamic behavior allows the audio system to adapt to changing user needs without manual intervention, improving versatility while maintaining reliable audio delivery through automated coordination.
2Adaptability or versatility
If audio content is swapped during user interaction, then additional audio content is provided, but user interaction coordination becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The audio coordination system operates autonomously by detecting user interactions directly and automatically determining when to switch between original and alternative audio content. This self-service mechanism eliminates the need for complex external coordination, reducing system complexity while maintaining high adaptability in audio delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback loops that monitor user interactions with the digital work and automatically adjust audio content delivery accordingly. This feedback mechanism enables the system to coordinate audio switching based on actual user behavior, providing versatile audio content delivery without requiring complex predetermined coordination logic.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple digital content types are presented simultaneously, then user attention is engaged, but content coordination becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the audio content delivery into separate, independently controllable streams - the original audio stream from the digital work and the alternative audio stream. This segmentation allows each audio stream to be managed separately, enabling multi-content presentation while simplifying coordination through independent stream control rather than complex integrated management.
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AI summary
Method and system for playing audio on a device, the method comprising the steps of a component of a digital work initiating a request for audio data during a rendering of the digital work, the digital work including video data. In response to the request, receiving the audio data. While continuing the rendering of the digital work on the device, suspending playback of first audio data currently playing on the device and playing the received audio data on the device. When the received audio data stops playing continuing with the rendering of the digital work on the device and resuming playback of the first audio data previously playing on the device.