Cloud-Based Video Interstitial Creator for Playlist Context
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Solution Overview
Problem
Content sharing platforms lack an easy way to provide context for media items in playlists, leading to a diminished user experience and a lack of monetary incentive for playlist curators, resulting in fewer available playlists.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-based tool for creating video interstitials that allows playlist curators to insert context-providing content, such as text, image, or video interstitials, into playlists, using a user-friendly interface and automated processing to simplify the creation and integration of interstitials.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If context information is added to playlists through interstitials, then user experience is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an interstitial element as an intermediary component that is inserted between media items in a playlist. This interstitial serves as a mediator that delivers context information without requiring complex modifications to the existing media playback system. The interstitial acts as a buffer layer that simplifies the integration of context information into the playlist structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent divides the playlist structure into discrete segments by inserting interstitial elements between media items. This segmentation allows context information to be delivered in isolated, manageable units rather than requiring comprehensive restructuring of the entire playlist system. Each interstitial is an independent, self-contained element that can be created and managed separately.
2Ease of operation
If automated interstitial creation tools are provided, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a self-service mechanism where the system automatically generates interstitial elements based on information already present in the media items themselves. The tool extracts metadata, titles, and other existing content from the media items and automatically assembles interstitials without requiring manual creation. This self-service approach simplifies operation while avoiding the need for complex manual configuration tools.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs copying by extracting and reusing existing information from media items to create interstitial content. Instead of requiring users to manually create original content, the system copies relevant information (titles, descriptions, metadata) from the media items themselves and formats it into interstitial elements. This copying mechanism provides ease of operation while keeping the tool complexity low.
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AI summary
A playlist interface is provided for display on a user device, the playlist interface comprising a selectable indicator located after a first media item in a playlist, the selectable indicator presented in the playlist interface after the first media item to indicate that, upon selection, a second media item is to be added after the first media item in the playlist, wherein the second media item is an interstitial. Upon a user selection of the selectable indicator located after the first media item in the playlist interface, a plurality of user interface (UI) elements are caused to be presented to allow a user of the user device to specify configuration parameters for the interstitial being added to the playlist. User input is received for at least a subset of the plurality of UI elements to specify the configuration parameters for the interstitial. The interstitial is created based on the received configuration parameters, wherein the created interstitial is supplemental content to be added before or after one of a plurality of files of a plurality of media items of the playlist.