Content Receiver Automating Call Initiation via Metadata Recognition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in accessing and remembering telephone numbers presented in content, such as advertisements, leading to a cumbersome experience when trying to initiate communication connections, as they require manual dialing and occupy visual or auditory space.
Innovation Solution
A content receiver determines associated communication connection identifiers, like telephone numbers, through metadata analysis or audio/image recognition, and signals connected communication devices to initiate calls after user notification and confirmation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual dialing is required for communication connections, then users can initiate calls, but user effort and time consumption increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically detecting communication connection identifiers (telephone numbers) from content before the user needs to make a call. The content receiver proactively identifies and prepares the communication information, eliminating the need for manual dialing and significantly reducing the time and effort required to establish a communication connection.
Solution Approach 2:
The communication connection system performs self-service by automatically extracting telephone numbers from content metadata or through audio/image recognition, identifying associated communication devices, and initiating calls without requiring manual user input. The system serves itself by autonomously completing the entire call initiation process based on content analysis.
2Loss of information
If telephone numbers are displayed in content, then communication information is provided, but visual or auditory space is occupied and user attention is diverted
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts communication connection identifiers from content metadata or through recognition techniques, separating the telephone number information from the main content display. This extraction allows the communication information to be accessed and used without occupying valuable visual or auditory space within the content presentation area, maintaining content integrity while providing call initiation capability.
3Extent of automation
If automated call initiation is implemented, then user effort is reduced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The content receiver system incorporates multi-functionality by integrating content reception, metadata analysis, audio/image recognition, communication device identification, and call initiation capabilities into a single unified system. This universal approach allows the system to perform multiple functions using shared components and processing resources, managing complexity while achieving high levels of automation.
Data Source
AI summary
A content receiver determines that a communication connection recipient identifier is associated with content received from a content provider. An associated communication device is identified by the content receiver. The content receiver then signals the communication device to initiate a communication connections utilizing the communication identifier. In some implementations, the content receiver may provide a user with a notification and may signal the communication device after receiving a responses to the notification. In one or more implementations, the communication connection recipient identifiers may be telephone numbers, the communication devices may be telecommunication devices, and the communication connections may be telephone connections. The content receiver may determine that a communication connection recipient identifier is associated with content based on analysis of metadata that accompanies or that otherwise corresponds to the received content or by audio and/or image recognition performed on the content.