Customizable Content Rating System for Diverse Viewer Groups

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing content rating systems fail to accommodate diverse cultural and subcultural values, leading to a lack of personalized programming guidance that reflects individual or group preferences.

Innovation Solution

A customizable content rating system where viewers can create and join groups to rate and recommend media content based on their shared values and interests, using a ratings service that provides personalized recommendations and controls access to content through a recommendation service.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a single standardized rating system is used for all viewers, then the system is simple and easy to operate, but it cannot reflect diverse cultural and subcultural values of different viewer groups

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveadaptability to diverse cultural valuesVSAvoidcomplexity of rating system

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the viewer population into multiple groups based on cultural, subcultural, or other shared values. Each group has its own customized rating system with group-specific standards and criteria. This segmentation allows the system to adapt to diverse values while maintaining manageable complexity within each segment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The rating system is made dynamic and configurable, allowing groups to define their own rating criteria and standards. The system can adapt to different group preferences and values through customizable parameters, making it versatile across different cultures while maintaining operational simplicity through automated group management.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Measurement precision

If customized rating systems are created for different viewer groups, then personalized programming guidance is improved, but the system complexity and difficulty of operation increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprecision of programming guidanceVSAvoidease of using rating system

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

Viewer groups automatically define their own rating standards and criteria through group discussions and consensus-building processes. The system provides tools for groups to self-configure their rating parameters, reducing the need for complex external configuration while achieving precise, personalized guidance tailored to each group's values.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where viewer responses and viewing patterns are continuously monitored and used to refine and adjust group rating standards. This feedback loop allows the system to automatically improve precision over time while maintaining ease of operation through automated adjustments.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple group-specific rating systems are maintained, then diverse viewer preferences are accommodated, but the loss of information and coordination overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to accommodate diverse preferencesVSAvoidinformation loss across multiple systems

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal platform that supports multiple group-specific rating systems simultaneously. The core system provides common functionalities for group management, content rating, and recommendation generation that work across all groups. This multi-functional approach allows diverse preferences to be accommodated while preventing information loss through centralized data management and standardized interfaces.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS8141114B2Content ratings and recommendations

Publication Date: 2012.03.20 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC

AI summary

Content ratings and recommendations is described. In an embodiment, a ratings service compiles ratings of programs for a rating system that is associated with a group of viewers, where a viewer of the group establishes the rating system, and where at least some of the viewers of the group rate the programs for the group of viewers. A recommendation service then provides program recommendations to the viewers of the group based on the rating system.