Content Distribution Platform Compatibility Mediator

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Solution Overview

Problem

Content providers are limited in reaching a broader audience as they may not be aware of various content publishing platforms, restricting the distribution of their content to only users of the platform they initially choose.

Innovation Solution

An online system identifies and recommends additional content publishing platforms for content distribution based on compliance with platform-specific policies, allowing for modifications to ensure content meets these policies, thereby expanding the audience reach.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If content providers publish content on a single content publishing platform, then the content distribution process is simple and straightforward, but the audience reach is limited to only users of that specific platform

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaudience reachVSAvoidcontent distribution process

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary service that acts as a mediator between content providers and multiple content publishing platforms. This intermediary automatically handles the complexity of identifying compatible platforms, validating content against platform-specific policies, and facilitating multi-platform distribution, thereby expanding audience reach without burdening the content provider with operational complexity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by automatically detecting content characteristics and autonomously determining which platforms the content qualifies for based on pre-defined policies. The system handles platform selection and content validation independently, allowing content providers to simply upload their content while the system manages the complex multi-platform distribution process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Quantity of substance

If content providers manually identify and select multiple content publishing platforms, then audience reach can be expanded, but the process becomes time-consuming and complex

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenumber of platformsVSAvoidcontent distribution time

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing and maintaining a database of content publishing platforms along with their specific policies and requirements. When content is submitted, the system immediately queries this pre-organized information to identify compatible platforms, eliminating the need for content providers to manually research or verify platform requirements and significantly reducing distribution time

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces the mechanical process of manual platform identification and content validation with automated computer-based processing. The system uses algorithmic comparison of content attributes against stored platform policies to automatically determine platform compatibility, substituting human manual inspection with automated computational analysis that is both faster and more consistent

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Adaptability or versatility

If content is modified to comply with platform-specific policies, then the content can be published on more platforms, but the content creation process becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplatform compatibilityVSAvoidcontent creation process

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms that provide content providers with specific information about which platform policies their content does not meet and what modifications are needed. This targeted feedback allows providers to make precise adjustments only where necessary rather than redesigning their entire content, thereby improving platform compatibility without unnecessarily complicating the content creation process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system handles platform compatibility by managing parameter changes rather than fundamental content redesign. The system identifies specific parameters (such as video dimensions, audio formats, or text characteristics) that differ between platforms and facilitates modifications only to these specific parameters, allowing content to adapt to multiple platforms through targeted parameter adjustments rather than complete content recreation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10198403B2Distributing content via content publishing platforms

Publication Date: 2019.02.05 META PLATFORMS INC

AI summary

Content provider systems publish content via content publishing platforms. An online system is associated with multiple content publishing platforms. Each content publishing platform is associated with policies that determine whether a content item is acceptable for publishing via the content publishing platform. For example, the policy may specify dimensions of a media object of the content item, keywords that are unacceptable for publishing via the content publishing platform, and so on. The online system receives requests from content provider systems to publish content via a particular content publishing platform. The online system determines whether the content item is suitable for publishing via one or more other content publishing platforms. The online system determines whether the content provider system approves publishing content via any of the identified content publishing platforms. The online system may deliver the content item to all content publishing platforms approved by the content provider system.