Content Management for Rich Multimedia Interactions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for delivering rich multimedia content on personal computing devices face challenges such as user frustration due to download delays and content overload, as they either require waiting for selected content to load or overwhelm users with concurrently displayed objects competing for limited resources.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for managing content within a rich multimedia interaction using a content management software application, which identifies and separates content objects into display and reserve subsets, allowing users to efficiently access desired content while conserving resources by displaying only the relevant content and minimizing unnecessary objects, utilizing XML-based applications and virtual tools for user control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If all content objects are concurrently downloaded and displayed, then user access speed to desired content is improved, but device complexity and resource consumption increase due to content overload
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments content objects into two distinct subsets: a display subset that is actively shown to the user, and a reserve subset that is downloaded but kept minimized. This segmentation allows the system to pre-load multiple content objects without overwhelming the user interface, thereby reducing access delay while maintaining manageable device complexity through organized content groups.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the burden of downloading multiple content objects from the user's immediate viewing experience by placing them in a minimized reserve subset. This extraction allows the system to prepare content in advance without requiring all content to be simultaneously displayed, thus improving access speed while preventing resource overload.
2Loss of time
If all content objects are concurrently displayed, then user access speed to desired content is improved, but computing resources are overwhelmed due to content overload
Solution Approach 1:
By dividing content objects into display and reserve subsets, the system can download and prepare multiple content objects in advance (improving access speed) while only actively processing and rendering the display subset (conserving computing resources). The reserve subset remains in a minimized state, requiring minimal computational overhead.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary downloading and preparation of content objects in the reserve subset before the user actually needs to view them. This preliminary action reduces the time required when the user does access the content, while the minimized state of reserve content ensures that computing resources are not continuously overwhelmed.
3Use of energy by moving object
If only selected content objects are displayed, then computing resources are conserved, but user access time to desired content increases due to download delays
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary downloading of content objects into the reserve subset before the user requests them. This preliminary action eliminates the download delay when the user accesses content, as the objects are already downloaded and ready to be moved to the display subset. Computing resources are conserved because the reserve content remains minimized and does not require active processing.
Data Source
AI summary
There is provided a method of managing content within a rich multimedia interaction comprising identifying a set of content objects associated with the rich multimedia interaction, determining a display subset and a reserve subset from the set of content objects, displaying the display subset, activating the reserve content objects in a minimized state, and providing a content control virtual tool configured to group and present a count of the reserve content objects according to their content object classes. The content control virtual tool is further configured to enable a user of the rich multimedia interaction to reassign content objects between the display subset and the reserve subset. A system for managing content within a rich multimedia interaction comprises a content server, a content object database, and a content management software application stored on a data storage unit.