Content Segmentation and Time Reconciliation in CMS

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current content management systems (CMSs) fail to provide integrated services for easy configuration and customization of presentations across multiple web pages, lack near-live speed capabilities, and cannot segment live content for targeted audiences or manage digital rights effectively, leading to missed opportunities in capturing consumer bases and optimizing content presentation.

Innovation Solution

The Digital Media Integration Exchange System (MIX Platform) integrates live video processing, content ingestion, ad hoc media upload, and property configuration, enabling comprehensive integration with live/linear video production, automatic content tagging, and advanced presentation management, including content segmentation and real-time analytics for optimized publishing across multiple channels.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If current CMSs are used for content management, then basic content storage and publishing is achieved, but integrated services for easy configuration and customization of presentations across multiple web pages are not provided

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconfiguration and customization capabilityVSAvoidsystem integration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal content management system that provides multiple functions including content ingestion, segmentation, digital rights management, analytics, and multi-channel publishing within a single integrated platform. This allows the system to serve diverse content management needs across multiple web pages and properties without requiring separate specialized systems, thereby improving adaptability while managing complexity through consolidation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments content into manageable units that can be independently configured, tagged, and distributed across different properties and channels. This segmentation enables flexible customization of presentations across multiple web pages while maintaining centralized control, resolving the contradiction between versatility and complexity by breaking down complex presentation tasks into reusable content segments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Speed

If current CMSs are used for content management, then basic content publishing is achieved, but near-live speed capabilities are not provided

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent processing speedVSAvoidtime delay in content delivery
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-ingesting, pre-segmenting, and pre-tagging content before it is needed for publication. This advance preparation enables near-live speed content delivery because the content is already processed and ready for immediate distribution across multiple channels without requiring time-consuming processing at the moment of publication.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements continuous content ingestion and processing operations that run in the background without interruption. This continuity ensures that content is constantly being prepared and updated in near-live time, eliminating delays and ensuring that the latest content is always available for immediate publication across all properties and channels.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

3Extent of automation

If current CMSs are used for content management, then basic content storage is achieved, but automatic content tagging and segmentation for targeted audiences are not provided

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomatic content taggingVSAvoidcontent processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Extent of automationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service automatic tagging and segmentation capabilities that autonomously analyze content metadata, text, and media to generate appropriate tags and categorizations without human intervention. This automation handles the complex task of content classification and audience targeting independently, improving the extent of automation while managing complexity through intelligent self-processing rather than requiring complex manual configuration systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms where the system continuously learns from content performance data, audience engagement metrics, and viewing patterns to automatically refine and improve tagging accuracy and segmentation effectiveness over time. This feedback loop enables the system to become increasingly accurate in automatic tagging and audience targeting while maintaining manageable complexity through data-driven optimization rather than complex rule-based systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

4Adaptability or versatility

If current CMSs are used for content management, then basic publishing is achieved, but integrated digital rights management and viewership analytics are not provided

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveintegrated service capabilityVSAvoidsystem integration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges digital rights management (DRM), analytics, content segmentation, and publishing functions into a single integrated content management system. This consolidation provides comprehensive service capability including automatic DRM protection, real-time viewership analytics, and coordinated content distribution across multiple channels. By combining these previously separate systems into one unified platform, the patent improves adaptability and versatility while managing integration complexity through a cohesive architectural design that allows these functions to work together seamlessly rather than as separate silos.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS10909975B2Content segmentation and time reconciliation
Publication Date: 2021.02.02 SINCLAIR BROADCAST GRP
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AI summary

Systems, devices and methods are described herein for segmentation of content, and more specifically for segmentation of content in a content management system. In one aspect, a method may include receiving content associated with speech, text, or closed captioning data. The speech, the text, or the closed captioning data may be analyzed to derive at least one of a topic, subject, or event for at least a portion of the content. The content may be divided into two or more content segments based on the analyzing. At least one of the topic, the subject, or the event may be associated with at least one of the two or more content segments based on the analyzing. At least one of the two or more content segments may then be published such that each of the two or more content segments is individually accessible.