Content Viewing Option Scoring for Unified Title-Level Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current content presentation interfaces for movie and television entertainment products are inefficient due to fragmented content sources, lacking a logical aggregation of viewing options, which complicates the user experience and consumes excessive computing and networking resources.
Innovation Solution
A content system that determines viewing options for content by scoring content dimensions, such as dynamic, static, and relationship dimensions, using metadata to unify content from different sources, calculate weighted dimensions, and rank viewing options to provide primary, secondary, and remaining options to the user.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If content is presented by source rather than by title level aggregation, then content sources remain fragmented and navigation becomes complex, but implementing title-level aggregation requires complex computing resources and networking resources
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary aggregation of viewing options at the title level before user interaction. By pre-processing and organizing content from multiple sources into unified title-level presentations with assigned viewing options, the system eliminates the need for complex real-time computations during user navigation, thereby improving ease of operation without proportionally increasing ongoing computational complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer that sits between fragmented content sources and the user interface. This intermediary aggregates content by title level and assigns viewing options, acting as a mediator that simplifies the interface without requiring excessive computing resources at the user device level
2Loss of time
If multiple viewing options are aggregated at the title level with logical ordering, then user navigation is simplified, but the system requires extensive processing to score and rank content dimensions
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes parameters by scoring content across multiple dimensions (content source, availability type, quality metrics) and assigning weighted values to different viewing options. This parameter-based scoring system enables efficient ranking and ordering of viewing options, reducing user search time while distributing processing requirements across standardized evaluation criteria rather than requiring exhaustive real-time analysis
3Loss of information
If the interface presents all available viewing options aggregated logically, then completeness of information is improved, but the interface complexity and data management burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments viewing options into distinct categories and dimensions (e.g., content source, availability type, quality level). By dividing the aggregated information into structured segments with clear labeling and hierarchical organization, the system presents complete viewing options while maintaining interface simplicity through systematic categorization rather than presenting all options as a undifferentiated list
Data Source
AI summary
A device may receive, from a user device, a content selection, and may receive metadata associated with the content. The device may determine viewing options, for viewing the content, based on the metadata associated with the content, and may identify dimensions of the content based on the viewing options. The device may calculate points for each of the dimensions of the content, and may assign the points for each of the dimensions of the content to generate weighted dimensions of the content. The device may associate the weighted dimensions of the content with the viewing options to generate weighted viewing options, and may rank the weighted viewing options to determine a primary viewing option, a secondary viewing option, and remaining viewing options. The device may provide the primary viewing option, the secondary viewing option, and the remaining viewing options to the user device, for display.