Content Distribution Server for Cross-Video Comment Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Typical video reference services fail to establish effective communication between viewers of a referring video and those of a referred video, limiting interactive engagement.
Innovation Solution
A content distribution server that obtains and outputs post data from both user terminals, allowing the display of comments and video content from one terminal on another, along with viewer-engagement indices and attribute information, to facilitate communication between referring and referred content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If typical video reference services are used to sequentially view referred videos, then video reference functionality is provided, but communication between referring and referred video viewers is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the referring video and referred video into a single integrated playback experience. When a referred video is played during a referring video, both video contents are displayed simultaneously (e.g., picture-in-picture or side-by-side), and comment streams from both videos are combined and displayed together, enabling viewers to engage with both content sources concurrently.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a comment stream as an intermediary that bridges the referring and referred videos. Comments from viewers of both videos are collected, processed, and displayed in a unified comment stream that appears on both video interfaces, allowing indirect communication between viewers of different videos without requiring direct interaction protocols.
2Productivity
If comments from both videos are displayed together, then user engagement is enhanced, but comment data processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments comment data by source video (referring vs. referred) while maintaining separate identification markers for each comment. This segmentation allows the system to process and manage comments from different sources independently while still presenting them in a unified display, reducing the complexity of differentiating and managing mixed comment streams.
3Adaptability or versatility
If video reference services are implemented, then content accessibility is improved, but interactive communication between viewers is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback loops where comments from referred video viewers are displayed on the referring video interface and vice versa. This creates a feedback mechanism where viewers can see reactions and comments from the other video context, enabling indirect communication and engagement that would otherwise be unavailable in traditional sequential video reference services.
Data Source
AI summary
Communications are established between a referring content and a referred content. A content providing server 1 includes an obtainer 11 configured to obtain first post data P1 from a first user terminal 3 on which first content data M1 is being viewed, and second post data P2 from a second user terminal 4 on which second content data M2 is being viewed; and an output unit 12 configured to output the first content data M1 and the first post data P1 to the first user terminal 3, and the second content data M2 and the second post data P2 to the second user terminal 4, and to output, if referring to and outputting the second content data M2 on the first content data M1, the second content data M2 to the first user terminal 3, and the first post data P1 to the second user terminal 4.