Media Playlist Recommendations Using Child Disinterest Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Parents struggle to create playlists for their children that align with their rapidly changing tastes in content, leading to frequent requests for new content and disruption due to inclusion of disliked media assets.

Innovation Solution

An interactive media guidance application that monitors expressions of disinterest from children, updates their user profiles based on these expressions, and recommends media assets that are less likely to be objected to, using a comprehensive set of parameters.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If parents manually select media assets for their children's playlist, then they can control content approval, but they cannot keep up with children's rapidly changing tastes leading to frequent requests for new content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent approval controlVSAvoidtime for playlist management
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-selects media assets and creates playlists in advance based on child user profiles and preferences, so that when children request content, approved content is already available without requiring real-time parental intervention

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically monitors child viewing activity, updates user profiles, and generates playlist recommendations without parental involvement, allowing the system to serve itself in managing content approval while maintaining parental oversight

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If parents include diverse content in playlists to satisfy changing tastes, then content variety increases, but children may object to inappropriate content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent varietyVSAvoidinappropriate content exposure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system monitors child viewing activity and objects to content in real-time, using this feedback to update user profiles and adjust playlist recommendations, ensuring content variety while preventing inappropriate content exposure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system acts as an intermediary between parental controls and child content consumption, automatically filtering and selecting appropriate content based on updated user profiles without requiring direct parental review of each item

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Speed

If the system recommends content based only on viewing history, then recommendation speed increases, but accuracy decreases due to lack of disinterest feedback

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecommendation generation speedVSAvoidpreference detection accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system incorporates disinterest feedback from children into the recommendation algorithm, updating user profiles to reflect both positive viewing history and negative disinterest signals, thereby improving preference detection accuracy while maintaining efficient automated operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP3472774B1Methods and systems for recommending to a first user media assets for inclusion in a playlist for a second user based on the second user's viewing activity
Publication Date: 2025.07.30 ADEIA GUIDES INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods for providing a first user with recommendations of media assets for inclusion in a playlist for a second user based on the second user's viewing activity. These systems and methods receive, from the second user, an expression of disinterest in a media asset included in the playlist for the second user, update a user profile associated with the second user based on the expression of disinterest, and determine a recommendation for another media asset based on the updated user profile associated with the second user. The systems and methods provide the recommendation to the first user. By recommending media assets that the second user is least likely to object to, these systems and methods reduce the frequency of disruptive requests for media assets from the second user.