Bidirectional Voting Mechanism for Live Stream Engagement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current live streaming systems lack a bidirectional voting mechanism, where audiences cannot create polls that hosts must act upon, resulting in a unidirectional polling system where hosts dictate actions to viewers.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a token-based system that allows audience participants to create and vote on polls, enabling them to decide actions for the host, such as voting up or down on binary choices, with the majority determining the host's action, and integrating generative artificial intelligence for creating and managing livestream content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If hosts create and control polls in live streaming systems, then the system maintains simple unidirectional control from host to audience, but the audience cannot create polls or influence host actions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent inverts the traditional polling direction by enabling audience members to create polls and vote, with the host responding to audience-initiated polls rather than the host creating and controlling all polls. This reversal transforms the unidirectional host-to-audience control into bidirectional interaction where audience members can initiate voting on poll questions they create, fundamentally changing the power dynamic in the live streaming polling system
2Ease of operation
If the system allows bidirectional voting where audiences can create polls, then audience engagement and interaction increase, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service functionality where audience members independently create poll questions, cast votes on their own polls, and track results without requiring host intervention for poll creation or management. The system automatically processes poll creation, voting, and result calculation, reducing the operational burden on hosts while enabling comprehensive audience participation and interaction
3Adaptability or versatility
If hosts must act on audience votes, then audience influence on host actions increases, but the host's control and flexibility decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent establishes a feedback loop where hosts receive real-time voting results from audience polls and can observe audience preferences through aggregated vote data. This feedback mechanism enables hosts to adjust their actions and content based on audience input while maintaining the ability to interpret and respond to the data in their own manner, balancing audience influence with host discretion
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AI summary
A system and method for a live stream voting with the voting during an active live stream session or responsive to a pre-recorded video is disclosed. The system and method include entering into an application, searching for an existing live stream session or pre-recorded video, selecting a live stream session in progress or a pre-recorded video, viewing the selected live stream session in progress or pre-recorded video, activating a button that enables the ability to vote, notifying a host of the selected live stream session based on activity needed from vote, holding voting users' tokens in escrow pending voted action being performed, performing the voted action, and paying the host a commission.