Duration-Based Media Playlist Engine for Travel
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Solution Overview
Problem
Consuming media content while traveling poses challenges such as difficulty in accessing desired content, energy consumption, distraction during travel, and integration with vehicle systems, due to limited interaction capabilities and network availability.
Innovation Solution
A media playback device with a duration-based customized media program engine that determines user preferences and travel conditions to generate playlists suitable for the duration of a trip, using a machine learning engine and user preferences data store, and adjusts content in response to changes in travel duration or user input.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a user manually selects media content for travel, then the user can choose preferred content, but it becomes difficult to find or select desired variety of media content suitable for traveling
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically generates customized media playlists based on travel duration and user preferences without requiring manual selection. The media playback device determines the duration of travel, retrieves user preferences, and autonomously compiles a playlist of appropriate media content, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring user intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-determines user preferences and travel conditions before media playback begins. By determining the duration of travel in advance and retrieving user preferences beforehand, the system prepares customized playlists in advance, eliminating the need for users to search and select content during travel.
2Duration of action of stationary object
If the media playback device continuously plays content to match travel duration, then the media experience remains continuous, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the media playlist based on the actual duration of travel. By determining the duration of travel and using it as a parameter for playlist generation, the system adapts the media playback duration to match the actual travel time, avoiding unnecessary energy consumption from playing content beyond the travel duration while ensuring continuous playback throughout the journey.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system generates customized playlists based on multiple parameters, then the media content matches travel conditions, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The media playback device is designed with a multi-functional media program engine that handles multiple tasks: determining travel duration, retrieving user preferences, generating customized playlists, and adjusting playback parameters. This universal engine consolidates multiple functions into a single system, reducing overall device complexity while maintaining high adaptability to various travel conditions and user preferences.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, devices, apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for building customized media programs for a specified duration are provided. An example media-playback device for generating customized media programs for a route to a specified duration includes a user preferences engine to determine a user's listening preferences, a duration engine to determine a duration of the route, and a duration-based media program engine for building a playlist of news and entertainment media content based on the duration of the route and the preferences of the user.