Customized Highlight Shows for Sporting Events

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing services for sporting events do not provide customized highlight shows that account for individual viewer preferences, leading to inefficient use of time and decreased viewership, as they lack mechanisms for user customization and narrative generation.

Innovation Solution

A system that generates and outputs customized highlight shows based on user preferences, allowing selection of attributes like teams, players, and play types, with excitement levels and fantasy sports integration, enabling users to create personalized content with narrative components.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If generalized highlights are provided to all viewers, then service complexity is reduced and ease of operation is improved, but viewer engagement and time efficiency deteriorate due to lack of personalization

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoidtime efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by collecting user preference data beforehand and automatically generating customized highlight shows based on stored preferences, eliminating the need for users to manually search through generic highlights and saving their time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by allowing users to define their own preferences for teams, players, and play types, then automatically generating and delivering personalized highlight shows without requiring manual curation or intervention

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Loss of time

If customized highlight shows are generated for individual viewers, then viewer engagement and time efficiency are improved, but service complexity and device complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetime efficiencyVSAvoidservice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies segmentation by breaking down the highlight generation process into distinct modules: preference collection, content filtering based on multiple attributes (team, player, play type), excitement level calculation, and narrative generation, making the complex service manageable and scalable

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system achieves universality by creating a multi-functional platform that handles preference management, automated content curation, excitement analysis, fantasy sports integration, and narrative generation within a single service framework, reducing overall system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Adaptability or versatility

If user preferences and customization options are added, then viewer engagement and content relevance are improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to increased complexity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent personalizationVSAvoidease of operation
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by collecting user preferences in advance through an initial setup process, storing these preferences for future use, and automatically applying them to generate customized highlights without requiring users to repeatedly configure options

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by monitoring user interactions with customized highlights and using this data to refine and adjust future highlight generation, improving personalization while maintaining ease of use through automatic adaptation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20240163532A1User interface for interaction with customized highlight shows
Publication Date: 2024.05.16 STATS LLC
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AI summary

Customized highlight shows for sporting events, entertainment events, and/or the like, may be generated and presented. Source content with a representation of one or more events, such as sports events, may be obtained. A user may designate an attribute and/or a viewing length. A subset of the source content with highlights from within the source content may be selected such that the subset has the attribute and/or viewing length designated by the user. A customized highlight show including the subset may be generated and outputted to the user, for example, on a display screen. The attribute may include a team playing in the sporting events, a player playing in the sporting events, and/or a type of play occurring in the sporting events. The subset may optionally be generated based on teams and/or players in one or more fantasy sports teams.