Custom Electronic Program Guide Using Portable Metering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current media delivery systems lack the ability to provide users with a personalized and dynamic electronic program guide that accurately reflects their media consumption habits and preferences, especially when consuming media across various devices and locations.
Innovation Solution
A custom electronic program guide is generated using portable metering technology that collects identifying information from media presentation devices, such as TVs and set-top boxes, and uploads this data to a central facility for processing, allowing for real-time updates and personalized content recommendations based on user behavior and location.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional program guides are used, then media information is provided to users, but the guide cannot be personalized or adapted to user preferences and consumption habits
Solution Approach 1:
The system collects data about user media consumption habits and uses this feedback to dynamically generate personalized program guides. The metering device monitors what media users consume and feeds this information back to the system, which then adjusts the program guide recommendations accordingly, creating a closed-loop adaptive system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically generates personalized program guides without requiring manual user input or configuration. The metering device autonomously collects consumption data, and the system automatically processes this data to create customized recommendations, allowing the system to serve itself in generating personalized content.
2Adaptability or versatility
If media consumption data is collected across multiple devices and locations, then personalized recommendations can be made, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The metering device is designed as a universal component that can be deployed across multiple types of media presentation devices (televisions, computers, mobile devices) and locations. This single multi-functional device collects consumption data from various sources and formats, simplifying the overall system architecture while enabling cross-device tracking capability.
3Speed
If real-time data collection and processing is implemented, then up-to-date personalized recommendations are provided, but the processing requirements and infrastructure costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the data processing into different components: local collection by the metering device, centralized processing at the facility, and personalized generation. This segmentation allows real-time responses at the user level while distributing the processing burden, reducing the immediate processing power requirements at any single location.
Data Source
AI summary
Custom electronic program guides are disclosed. An example method includes collecting identifying information associated with media using at least one of a microphone or camera of a consumer electronics device, determining a characteristic of the consumer electronics device, the characteristic being at least one of a length of time during which the identifying information was collected, a percentage of the identifying information corresponding to a same program, or a geographic location at which the identifying information was collected, and determining, based on the characteristic, whether the collected identifying information is to be used in generating a custom electronic program guide for a user associated with the consumer electronics device.