Content Management for Scroll Message Continuity Across Transitions

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing content management systems struggle with maintaining continuity of scroll messages across content transitions, leading to disruptive re-starts during playback.

Innovation Solution

A content management device and method that determines adjacent playback times of multiple content pieces and allows setting a common scroll message across these times, ensuring seamless continuity of scroll messages without interruptions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If separate scroll messages are set for each content piece, then each content can have its own customized scroll message, but the scroll messages will restart disruptively during content transitions

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontinuity of scroll message playbackVSAvoidscroll message management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple separate scroll message settings into a single common scroll message that spans across multiple content pieces. The playback controller plays back the common scroll message continuously from the start time of the first content through the end time of the second content, eliminating disruptive restarts while simplifying management.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Reliability

If a common scroll message is played across multiple content pieces, then continuity is maintained, but the ability to have content-specific scroll messages is lost

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontinuity of scroll message playbackVSAvoidcontent-specific scroll message customization

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the scroll message setting into two types: common scroll messages for adjacent content pieces requiring continuity, and separate scroll messages for non-adjacent content pieces. The playback controller determines adjacency based on playback times and applies the appropriate scroll message type, maintaining both continuity where needed and customization where applicable.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Ease of operation

If scroll messages restart with each content transition, then each content gets fresh scroll message playback, but user experience is disrupted by interruptions

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvescroll message management simplicityVSAvoiduser experience continuity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements continuous playback of the common scroll message across content transitions. The playback controller ensures the scroll message plays back without interruption from the start time of the first content through the end time of the second content, maintaining useful action continuity and enhancing user experience.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS12449965B2Content management device, content management method, and computer-readable recording medium

Publication Date: 2025.10.21 SHARP KK

AI summary

The content management device includes a content playback time adjacency determiner, a common scroll message setting operation acceptor, and a playback controller. The content playback time adjacency determiner determines whether playback times of a first piece of content and a second piece of content are adjacent. The operation acceptor accepts an operation to set a common scroll message that is the same for the first piece of content and the second piece of content when the playback times of the first piece of content and the second piece of content are determined to be adjacent by the adjacency determiner. The playback controller continuously plays back the common scroll message across the playback time of the first piece of content and the playback time of the second piece of content when the common scroll message is set to the first piece of content and the second piece of content.