Customized Channel Icon Generation for Media Selection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Consumers face challenges in finding and selecting relevant on-demand media content due to the vast availability of options across various platforms and providers, making it difficult to identify the right content from the right provider.

Innovation Solution

A method is introduced where a channel is associated with a user profile, allowing the client device to detect and generate a new customized channel icon, which is displayed on the screen, enabling personalized content selection and access through a platform server that manages user data, content sources, and user interfaces.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If consumers browse through content by genre categories or search for titles, then they can find content, but the increasing amount of available content makes it more challenging to find and select content of interest

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveamount of on-demand contentVSAvoiddifficulty to find and select content

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the overwhelming array of content into personalized channels organized by topic or interest category. Each channel aggregates content from multiple sources that is relevant to the user's profile, transforming the unmanageable quantity of individual content items into organized, digestible channels that are easier to navigate and select from.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces personalized channels as intermediary structures between the user and the vast content library. These channels act as mediators that curate and organize content from various providers, presenting it in a personalized manner that reduces the cognitive load on users and simplifies the selection process.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If consumers have increasing number of choices on where to buy, rent, or consume content, then they have more options, but it becomes more challenging to find the right content from the right content provider

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenumber of content provider choicesVSAvoiddifficulty to find right content from right provider

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by customizing each channel's content based on the user's individual profile, viewing history, and preferences. Instead of a uniform content presentation, each channel provides locally tailored content selections that are most relevant to that specific user, making the vast array of provider choices manageable and intuitive.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where user interactions with content (viewing patterns, selections, preferences) are continuously fed back into the channel creation and curation process. This feedback loop enables the channels to adapt and refine their content selections over time, improving the ease of finding the right content from the right provider.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS9805033B2Population of customized channels

Publication Date: 2017.10.31 ROKU INC

AI summary

A method includes associating a channel with a profile, where the channel is configured for use with a client device. The client device detects the channel as a new customized channel based on the profile. A new customized channel icon configured to represent the new customized channel is generated. The new customized channel icon is displayed on a screen via the client device.