Content Management System for Live Point Synchronization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for returning a viewer to a live point in content delivery often skip content segments without considering their interest level, potentially missing important or engaging parts of the content, which detracts from the user experience.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for analyzing and storing content segments based on their interest level, where segments with lower interest levels can be skipped or not output to the user, allowing the system to efficiently return to a live point by prioritizing more engaging content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If content segments are skipped to return to live point, then time delay is reduced, but important content may be lost

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetime delayVSAvoidimportant content

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of content segments to identify and tag important content before the interruption occurs. This advance preparation allows the system to make informed decisions about which segments to skip later, ensuring that important content is preserved while still reducing time delay effectively.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from content analysis results to dynamically adjust which segments are skipped. By continuously evaluating content importance metrics and using this feedback to guide the skipping decision, the system optimizes the balance between reducing time delay and preserving important content based on real-time conditions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Loss of information

If all content segments are output, then no content is lost, but user experience deteriorates due to boring segments

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent completenessVSAvoiduser experience

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different quality standards to different content segments based on their individual characteristics. Important segments are preserved in full detail, while less important segments are condensed or skipped. This local differentiation of quality allows the system to maintain overall content completeness while enhancing user experience by eliminating boring portions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the output parameter (content delivery rate) dynamically based on segment importance. High-importance segments are delivered at full quality and speed, while low-importance segments are delivered at reduced quality or skipped entirely. This parameter adjustment optimizes both content completeness and user experience.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20240064344A1Methods and systems for content management

Publication Date: 2024.02.22 COMCAST CABLE COMM LLC

AI summary

Methods, systems, and apparatus are described herein for analyzing content if an interruption occurs during an output of content so as to synchronize a playback point of the output of content to a live point of the output of content. An output of content may be interrupted for any number of reasons, and during the interruption period, the content may be selectively stored.