Contextual Information Overlay for Multimedia Console Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current multimedia devices lack a seamless way for users to access and share contextually relevant information and social interactions within their current gaming or media experience, forcing users to leave the experience to find information, which is often not timely or integrated.
Innovation Solution
A system architecture that predefines a unique schema for each piece of content or application, allowing users to access and share information, make social contacts, and interact with others in real-time through voice, video, or text chat, while remaining within the multimedia experience, by hosting concurrent system applications and services that report user actions and provide contextual information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users leave the multimedia experience to search for information or social contacts on the web, then they can access information and community discussions, but the information is not timely, not contextually relevant, and the user experience is broken
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the social/community information network with the multimedia application experience by running a system application concurrently with the media application. The system application accesses the same contextual information schema that the media application uses, allowing users to access community information, post messages, and interact with other users without leaving the multimedia experience. This integration eliminates the need to switch between applications and ensures information is contextually relevant and timely.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the multimedia application creates its own specific help in-game, then users currently executing the application can access contextually relevant information, but users outside the application cannot participate in the community or display information
Solution Approach 1:
The system application serves multiple functions: it provides help and contextual information to users within the media application, enables community discussions and information sharing, and allows users to post and access information across different contexts. By creating a universal system-level application that runs concurrently with media applications and accesses the same contextual schema, the patent enables broad community participation while maintaining a manageable architecture through standardized interfaces and predefined schemas.
3Ease of operation
If the system hosts concurrent system applications and services that access predefined contextual schemas, then users can access and share contextually relevant information within the multimedia experience, but the system architecture becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements predefined contextual information schemas for each media application before the application runs. These schemas define the structure and meaning of contextual information that the application will generate and use. By establishing these schemas in advance, the system can efficiently host concurrent system applications that access this predefined structure, reducing the complexity of real-time information processing and integration while improving ease of operation for users accessing contextual information.
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AI summary
A system architecture that predefines a unique schema around content or applications so that the actions of a user are understood outside a specific piece of content or application. Additionally, the application also reports to system applications what specific locations or actions are currently being undertaken by a user. With this data, the system application can build a system whereby it concurrently presents contextual information to users outside of the specific piece of content or application in a way that supports bringing users with similar contextual states together and allow other information services to be hosted and presented concurrently to the user outside the specific piece of content or application on the multimedia device.