Broadcast Content Selection System with Compliance Filtering

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Solution Overview

Problem

Selecting content for broadcast is challenging due to the large volume of available media, considerations such as duration, timing, inventory, and rights restrictions, leading to a time-consuming process with many factors to account for.

Innovation Solution

A system that identifies and filters video clips based on user queries, ensuring only clips that comply with predefined broadcasting requirements are presented for selection and broadcast, using a network environment with processors to generate rundowns and playlists.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual content selection process is used, then flexibility in content choice is maintained, but selection time increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent selection speedVSAvoidtime to select and broadcast content
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary filtering and organization of video clips based on broadcasting requirements before the user needs to select content. By pre-processing the content library and organizing clips by compliance status, the system eliminates the need for manual checking during the selection process, significantly reducing selection time while maintaining user flexibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically checks video clips against broadcasting requirements without requiring manual intervention. The automated compliance checking system serves itself by identifying compliant clips and generating ready-to-broadcast playlists, reducing both selection time and the need for manual verification while maintaining high flexibility in content choice.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If comprehensive broadcasting requirements checking is performed, then compliance accuracy is improved, but processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompliance with broadcasting requirementsVSAvoidsystem complexity for checking multiple requirements
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the broadcasting requirements checking process into distinct modules, each handling a specific requirement type (e.g., content guidelines, technical specifications, licensing). This segmentation allows the complex checking process to be divided into manageable, independent components that can be processed separately and efficiently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive compliance checking.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary compliance checking layer between the video clip library and the broadcast output. This intermediary automatically verifies each clip against multiple broadcasting requirements, managing the complexity of comprehensive checking while ensuring high compliance accuracy. The intermediary acts as a mediator that simplifies the interface between content selection and broadcast delivery.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If all video clips are made available for selection, then content variety is maximized, but network communication overhead increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent selection flexibilityVSAvoidnetwork bandwidth used for content data
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the essential metadata and compliance information from video clips for network transmission, rather than transmitting complete video data. By separating the selection process from the content delivery, the system maintains full content variety and selection flexibility while minimizing network overhead to only the necessary selection criteria and compliance status information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary compliance checking and organization of video clips before they are made available for selection. By pre-filtering and organizing content based on broadcasting requirements, the system reduces the amount of information that needs to be communicated over the network during the selection process, while still providing access to the full variety of compliant content options.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10405018B2System and method for publishing content for broadcast
Publication Date: 2019.09.03 QVC INC
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AI summary

A system for publishing content for broadcast includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to identify, in response to a user query, one or more video clips of a plurality of video clips stored in one or more storage devices. The one or more processors are further configured to display an indication of the one or more identified video clips and generate, based on a user selection of the one or more identified video clips, a rundown comprising the user-selected video clips. The one or more processors are further configured to determine that each of the user-selected video clips comply with a plurality of broadcasting requirements stored in the one or more storage devices and generate a playlist comprising each of the user-selected video clips of the rundown that comply with the plurality of broadcasting requirements.