Dynamic Enhanced Content Access During Media Presentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulties in accessing enhanced content related to media content instances while they are being presented, as current methods require substantial user input, making it cumbersome and distracting, leading to many users not attempting to access such content.

Innovation Solution

An enhanced content access system that detects media content instances, analyzes associated text streams to obtain keywords, and dynamically displays relevant enhanced content in a graphical user interface during media content presentation, allowing users to access additional content without interrupting their experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users manually search for enhanced content using search engines or navigate to websites, then they can access enhanced content, but the process becomes cumbersome and distracting

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of accessing enhanced contentVSAvoidtime spent on manual input
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically detecting media content instances and pre-fetching associated enhanced content before the user needs it. The system analyzes text streams, extracts keywords, and retrieves relevant enhanced content in advance, so when the user views the media content, the enhanced content is already prepared and ready for immediate display without requiring manual user actions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by automatically performing all content retrieval operations without user intervention. The system detects media content, extracts keywords from text streams, queries content sources, and displays enhanced content automatically based on what the user is currently viewing. This eliminates the need for users to manually search or navigate to access enhanced content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Productivity

If the system automatically detects and displays enhanced content, then user engagement improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser engagement with enhanced contentVSAvoidcomplexity of content access system
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the content access functionality into distinct modular components: a detection facility that identifies media content instances, a text analysis facility that extracts keywords from text streams, a content selection facility that queries multiple content sources, and a display facility that presents enhanced content. This segmentation allows each component to be independently developed, maintained, and optimized, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high user engagement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces intermediary components that simplify the interaction between users and complex content sources. The text analysis facility acts as an intermediary that automatically extracts meaningful keywords from media content, and the content selection facility serves as an intermediary that manages queries to multiple external content sources. These intermediaries shield users from the underlying complexity while enabling rich enhanced content delivery.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS8701043B2Methods and systems for dynamically providing access to enhanced content during a presentation of a media content instance
Publication Date: 2014.04.15 VERIZON PATENT & LICENSING INC
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AI summary

Exemplary methods and systems for dynamically providing access to enhanced content during a presentation of a media content instance are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes an enhanced content access system detecting a presentation of a media content instance, analyzing a stream of text associated with the media content instance to obtain one or more keywords each corresponding to at least one of a plurality of portions of the media content instance, selecting one or more enhanced content instances associated with the media content instance in accordance with the one or more keywords, and dynamically displaying one or more display elements each representative of an enhanced content instance included in the one or more enhanced content instances in a graphical user interface during the presentation of the media content instance. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.