Digital Video Recorder Border Metadata Capture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital video recorder systems fail to store and provide metadata for pre- and post-broadcast media content, making it difficult for users to identify and access information about partially recorded adjacent programs, especially when schedule deviations occur.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that record and store metadata for a border of additional content adjacent to the intended content, including portions before and after the scheduled content, ensuring complete recording despite schedule deviations, and allowing users to access this metadata upon request.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a border is added to accommodate schedule deviations, then the reliability of content recording is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by capturing metadata for adjacent content before the actual recording occurs. The metadata capture module proactively retrieves and stores metadata for content that may border the scheduled program, ensuring that when schedule deviations occur and border content is included in the recording, the corresponding metadata is already available for display.
2Loss of information
If metadata for border content is stored, then the information availability is improved, but the storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by storing metadata selectively rather than universally. Metadata is captured and stored only for adjacent content that actually borders the recorded program due to schedule deviations. This means that for each recording, metadata is stored locally for the specific border content relevant to that recording, rather than pre-storing metadata for all possible content in the system.
3Reliability
If the entire adjacent content is recorded, then the recording completeness is improved, but the productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements partial action by recording only a portion of the adjacent content - specifically, only the border portion that results from schedule deviations. Rather than recording entire adjacent programs, the system captures only the necessary border segments (typically a few minutes) that ensure complete coverage of the scheduled content. This partial recording approach maintains reliability while preserving productivity.
Data Source
AI summary
A digital video recorder records first content from a channel broadcast that includes second content adjacent to the first content in response to a user request and stores a border around the first content that includes a portion of the second content and metadata related to the second content. The border may be previous and/or subsequent to the first content. In some implementations, the digital video recorder may obtain the metadata from a source other than from which the digital video recorder receives the content. The first content and the metadata may be recorded at the same and/or different times.