Digital Content Management via Global Media Database
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Solution Overview
Problem
Content providers face challenges in managing and promoting large numbers of digital content files, including streaming media, due to the need for technical expertise and efficient linking, updating, and promotion, which existing service providers struggle to address effectively.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that couples content providers to a Global Media Database (GMDB) for managing, linking, and promoting digital content, allowing submission of feed files with descriptive information, enabling access control, and utilizing templates to ensure completeness, along with a graphical user interface for editing and promotion, facilitating the linking and promotion of digital content across networks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If service providers manage large numbers of content files from multiple content providers, then the system can support more clients and content, but the complexity of managing and organizing these files increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the content management system into distinct functional modules: a content repository for storing files, a metadata database for organizing information, a user interface layer for interaction, and automated processing components. This modular segmentation allows the system to handle large numbers of content files from multiple providers while maintaining manageable complexity through clear separation of concerns and standardized interfaces between modules.
2Productivity
If the content management system organizes large numbers of content files, then it can serve more users, but the ease of use for content providers decreases due to technical expertise requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary automated processing system that acts as a mediator between content providers and the complex backend infrastructure. This intermediary layer includes automated metadata extraction, validation, and classification components that translate simple content uploads into properly organized, indexed, and promoted content without requiring providers to understand the underlying complexity. The system handles technical operations automatically while presenting a simplified interface to users.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements self-service capabilities where the content management infrastructure automatically performs tasks such as metadata generation, content classification, and promotional material creation without human intervention. Automated processors analyze uploaded content, extract relevant information, and organize files according to predefined schemas, enabling the system to serve more users while maintaining ease of operation through automation of complex tasks.
3Reliability
If service providers manually link, update, and promote digital content, then content can be managed accurately, but the time and resources required increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action through automated processing that occurs at the time of content upload. Metadata is extracted and validated immediately, content is classified and tagged automatically, and promotional materials are generated in advance. This preliminary automation ensures accuracy requirements are met while eliminating the need for time-consuming manual linking, updating, and promotion operations later in the workflow.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where automated processors continuously monitor content status, track user interactions, and dynamically update promotional strategies based on performance data. This feedback loop ensures content management accuracy by automatically adjusting metadata, updating links when content changes, and optimizing promotion based on real-time performance metrics without requiring manual intervention.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention describes a system and method of managing digital content received from content providers and for facilitating access to the digital content to many subscribers. The method includes receiving from the content providers incoming feed files where each feed file contains information describing the content. The method determines if the feed files are approved by applying a template to the feed files and also receives request files from the subscribers where each request file contains search criteria. The method provides one or more answer files in response to the request files where each answer file identifies feed files that meet the search criteria of a corresponding request file. The answer files are used to access or permit access to digital content on the web. In addition, a graphical user interface is described to manage, edit, promote and delete the feed files provided to the system.