Dynamic Grid Guide for Fresh Content Discovery

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current grid guides clutter users' screens with previously seen content, making it difficult to discover new content of interest as users must sift through familiar items repeatedly, leading to missed fresh content.

Innovation Solution

The system removes duplicate content identifiers and collapses empty rows/columns, while highlighting fresh content through distinct display characteristics such as color, brightness, and graphic icons, ensuring users only see new content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the grid guide displays all content items to ensure comprehensive content availability, then the user can access any content, but the user screen is cluttered with previously seen content making it difficult to discover fresh content

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent availabilityVSAvoidcontent discovery

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and removes duplicate content items from the grid guide display. When a user views content from a particular source, the system identifies and removes that content source from subsequent grid guide displays, thereby eliminating redundant content and preventing users from seeing the same content multiple times.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The grid guide dynamically adapts its content based on user viewing history. The system continuously updates the grid guide by removing content sources that the user has already viewed, creating a dynamic display that evolves based on user interactions to prioritize fresh content.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Stability of the object's composition

If the grid guide maintains a fixed layout with all content sources, then the structure remains stable, but empty rows and columns waste screen space reducing the number of fresh content items visible

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvegrid structureVSAvoidscreen space utilization

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The grid guide transitions from a static fixed layout to a dynamic adaptive layout. After removing duplicate content sources, the system automatically adjusts the grid structure by collapsing empty rows and columns, allowing the display to adapt its shape based on the remaining content while maximizing screen space utilization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS20250024102A1Systems and methods for optimized discovery of fresh content in a dynamic interactive guide

Publication Date: 2025.01.16 ADEIA GUIDES INC

AI summary

Methods and systems for facilitating discovery of fresh content in a grid guide are described herein. The system generates for display a grid guide with a first set of content identifiers populating the grid guide. The system receives an input to shift the grid guide and, in response, identifies a second set of content identifiers that would populate the grid guide following the shift. The system determines duplicative content identifiers between the first and second sets of content identifiers. The system then removes the duplicative content identifiers or highlights the non-duplicative content identifiers in order to emphasize fresh content in the grid guide. The system may additionally add identifiers to the content identifiers to indicate recorded or previously watched content and may collapse the grid guide if there are blank rows or columns. These methods and systems provide the user with easier access to fresh content in the grid guide.