Digital Media Content Comparator for Celebrity Playlist Monetization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Celebrities lose the opportunity to monetize their digital media playlists when they are shared with consumers, as static playlists are not reflective of their current preferences and do not allow for real-time access without disclosing the playlist contents.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that compares a user's digital media content to a celebrity's playlist without revealing the celebrity's list, identifying missing content and allowing users to acquire it through a cloud-based service, ensuring the celebrity's playlist remains non-static and monetizable.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a celebrity's playlist is shared with consumers, then consumers can access the playlist contents, but the celebrity loses the opportunity to monetize the playlist

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovePlaylist accessibilityVSAvoidMonetization opportunity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a third-party service as an intermediary between the celebrity and consumers. This service provides playlist recommendations to consumers without revealing the actual playlist contents, thereby maintaining the celebrity's control over their content while still enabling monetization through the intermediary service.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent extracts the valuable information (playlist recommendations) from the actual playlist contents. Instead of sharing the complete playlist, only the recommendation data is made available to consumers, preserving the original playlist's exclusivity and monetization potential while still providing value to users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Loss of information

If a static playlist is posted online, then consumers can view the playlist, but the playlist is not reflective of current celebrity preferences

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovePlaylist visibilityVSAvoidPlaylist dynamism
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transforms the static playlist concept into a dynamic recommendation system. The service continuously updates recommendations based on the celebrity's current listening habits and preferences, ensuring the recommendations remain relevant and reflective of current tastes without requiring the celebrity to publicly post their actual playlist.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where the celebrity's listening behavior is continuously monitored and fed back into the recommendation algorithm. This allows the playlist recommendations to adapt and evolve based on real-time data about the celebrity's current preferences, maintaining accuracy without public disclosure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Ease of operation

If the celebrity's playlist is made available to consumers, then consumers can obtain the content, but the celebrity cannot maintain control over their content

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveContent accessibilityVSAvoidContent control
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The third-party service acts as a mediator that provides playlist recommendations without exposing the actual playlist contents. This intermediary layer maintains the celebrity's control over their content while still enabling consumers to access relevant recommendations, thus preserving both accessibility and control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates and distributes copies of recommendation data rather than the actual playlist contents. Consumers receive recommendations based on the celebrity's preferences without gaining access to the original playlist, thus maintaining the celebrity's control over their content while providing value to users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentEP3420479B1Digital media content comparator
Publication Date: 2022.09.21 SAZAN DAVID
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AI summary

A system for acquiring digital content identified in a celebrity content list without disclosing the list, includes a database storing at least one celebrity content list, the list being associated with a particular celebrity and identifying digital content selected by the celebrity. A request is received from a user's computing device for a specific quantity of content associated with a particular celebrity content list and the particular celebrity content list is retrieved from the database. A list is received from the user's computing device identifying existing user content user stored on or otherwise accessible by the user's computing device. The existing user content is compared to the particular celebrity content list to identify any missing content absent from the existing user content. The specific quantity of missing content is transmitted to the user's computing device without the user viewing the particular celebrity content list.