Contextual Channel Identifier Processing for TV Personalization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional television user interfaces based on channel identifiers have remained largely unchanged and lack features for personalization, leading to complex and inefficient navigation.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for processing a contextual channel identifier, which detects channel identifiers and context settings to identify and switch between different frequency channels and data sources, allowing for dynamic presentation of content through a frequency tuner and output devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional channel identifier interfaces are used, then device simplicity is maintained, but user personalization capability is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the channel identifier functionality into multiple independent components: context settings, channel contexts, channel bindings, and frequency tuners. This segmentation allows each component to be configured and managed separately, enabling personalization without requiring a complete interface redesign. Users can customize channel bindings within their context settings while maintaining the overall system structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic channel bindings that can be automatically updated based on context settings. The system dynamically resolves channel identifiers to frequency channels or data sources based on the active context, allowing the interface to adapt to different user preferences and scenarios without requiring manual reconfiguration of the entire system.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple channel contexts are supported, then adaptability is improved, but navigation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent pre-configures multiple channel contexts with their respective channel bindings during system initialization or setup phases. This preliminary action allows the system to have multiple personalized channel configurations ready in advance, enabling users to switch between contexts without performing complex navigation operations. The context switching becomes a simple selection among pre-prepared configurations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If contextual channel identifier processing is implemented, then content presentation flexibility is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces channel contexts as intermediary layers between channel identifiers and actual content sources (frequency channels or data sources). This intermediary structure simplifies the processing complexity by providing a standardized resolution mechanism: the system only needs to resolve the active context's channel bindings to determine the actual content source, rather than managing complex direct mappings between identifiers and multiple possible sources.
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AI summary
Methods and systems are described for processing a contextual channel identifier. A channel identifier is detected. A context setting is detected identifying a first channel binding for the channel identifier. The first channel binding identifies a frequency channel accessible via a frequency tuner for presenting, via an output device, data from the first frequency channel. A detection is made that the context setting identifies a second channel context. The first channel identifier identifies a second channel binding based on the second channel context. In response to detecting that the context setting identifies the second channel context, a second data source identified by the second channel binding is accessed to present data from the second data source via an output device.