Online Directory Audiovisual Content Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional online directories lack the ability to seamlessly integrate and present audiovisual content with directory listings, limiting user engagement and information delivery.
Innovation Solution
An online directory system that allows users to access and view audiovisual content associated with directory listings by providing identifiers for selected listings, enabling the retrieval and presentation of this content alongside other directory information through a network-enabled user terminal and directory server.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional online directories are used to provide directory listings, then basic information delivery is achieved, but user engagement and information delivery quality are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple media types (audiovisual content, photographs, videos, audio clips) with traditional directory listings to create a unified enhanced listing. This merging of different information formats allows the directory service to deliver both basic contact information and engaging multimedia content simultaneously, resolving the contradiction between information delivery quality and user engagement capability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from traditional text-based directory listings to multi-dimensional listings that incorporate audiovisual content. By adding temporal and sensory dimensions through video and audio clips, the directory service enhances information delivery quality while improving user engagement, moving beyond the flat two-dimensional text display
2Adaptability or versatility
If audiovisual content is integrated with directory listings, then user engagement and information delivery are enhanced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the directory listing into distinct components: basic contact information, audiovisual content identifiers, and media player functionality. This segmentation allows the system to manage complexity by treating each component independently while maintaining their integrated presentation, reducing the overall system complexity burden
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer (the directory server and media player interface) that mediates between the user terminal and the audiovisual content storage. This intermediary manages the complexity of content delivery, authentication, and playback control, shielding users from underlying system complexity while enabling enhanced engagement
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AI summary
Systems and methods provide an online directory service over a network. After receiving a request to view an online directory listing from a network-enabled user terminal, an online directory server may present to the user terminal a directory listing associated with an identifier of audiovisual content. In response to a selection by a user of the listing, the user terminal may provide the identifier associated with the selected directory listing to the directory server. Based on the identifier, the directory server may access the audiovisual content and provide it to the user terminal and may present it to the user in conjunction with the other information of the directory listing.