Broadcast Notification Interfaces for Device-Specific Live Event Overlays

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional broadcast systems struggle to provide customized or device-specific information to broadcast receiver devices due to their one-to-many configuration, making it challenging to monitor and display relevant information with broadcast content.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for generating notification interfaces based on interactions with broadcast events, which involves identifying broadcast receiver devices, determining content item arrangements, and transmitting display instructions to display notifications or user interfaces without interrupting the broadcast.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If conventional broadcast systems use one-to-many configuration to distribute content, then content delivery efficiency is improved, but the ability to provide customized or device-specific information deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent delivery efficiencyVSAvoidcustomization capability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the broadcast information stream into device-specific portions. Each broadcast receiver device receives a customized subset of content items based on its identified characteristics, rather than receiving all broadcast information. This segmentation enables both efficient targeted delivery and device-specific customization simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by tailoring the information presentation to each specific device's characteristics. Content items are selected and arranged according to device-specific attributes, ensuring that each device receives information optimized for its particular capabilities and user profile, while still participating in the overall broadcast system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Ease of operation

If notification interfaces are displayed with broadcast content, then user interaction capability is improved, but broadcast quality may deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interaction capabilityVSAvoidbroadcast quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent adds an interactive dimension to the traditional linear broadcast by overlaying notification interfaces with actionable objects. Users can interact with these notifications while the broadcast continues, creating a multi-layered experience where information interaction occurs in parallel with content consumption without interrupting the broadcast stream.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and selecting content items before transmission. Notifications and actionable objects are prepared in advance based on device characteristics, allowing the broadcast system to deliver customized interactive elements without real-time processing delays that could affect broadcast quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Quantity of substance

If multiple content items are displayed with broadcast content, then information completeness is improved, but display complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoiddisplay complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies partial action by selectively displaying a subset of available content items based on device-specific characteristics. Rather than presenting all possible information, the system chooses the most relevant content items for each device, maintaining information completeness for that device's needs while avoiding the complexity of displaying every possible notification and content element.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS20260032317A1Systems and methods for generating notification interfaces based on interactions with broadcast events
Publication Date: 2026.01.29 DK CROWN HOLDINGS INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods for generating notification interfaces based on interactions with broadcast events are provided. The system can maintain content items corresponding to a live event, and identify interactions provided via a broadcast receiver device while the broadcast receiver device presented corresponding historic live event broadcasts. The system can determine an arrangement of the content items corresponding to the live event based on attributes of the historic live event broadcasts. The system can generate display instructions for the broadcast receiver device that cause the broadcast receiver device to display the content items with a broadcast of the live event according to the arrangement, and transmit the display instructions to the broadcast receiver device to cause the broadcast receiver device to display the content items with the broadcast of the live event.