Dynamic Routing of Aggregated Online Media Streams

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulty in finding media content that suits their preferences due to the vast number of streaming services and streams available, leading to reliance on a few well-known stations rather than exploring diverse media content.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that monitor media content streams from multiple providers, identify user preferences, and create personalized media content streams by selecting relevant items from these streams, allowing users to access a single service for multiple media sources and providing feedback for improved recommendations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users manually search through numerous streaming services to find media content that suits their preferences, then they can access diverse media content, but the time and effort required increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess to diverse media contentVSAvoidtime to locate streaming service

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary system that acts as a mediator between multiple streaming services and the user. This system automatically monitors media content across numerous streams, identifies content matching user preferences, and delivers it without requiring the user to manually search through each service. The intermediary resolves the contradiction by performing the time-consuming search and selection tasks automatically while still providing access to diverse content from multiple sources.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-monitoring and pre-identifying media content that matches user preferences before the user requests it. The intermediary continuously scans multiple streaming services in advance, builds a database of available content, and organizes it according to user preferences, so that when the user accesses the system, the suitable content is already prepared and ready for immediate delivery.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If users rely on a few well-known streaming services, then the ease of operation increases, but the diversity of media content available decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesimplicity of accessing streaming serviceVSAvoiddiversity of media content

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a universal platform that aggregates content from multiple specialized streaming services. Instead of requiring users to access several different services separately, the system provides a single point of access that delivers content from numerous sources. This multi-functional approach maintains the simplicity of using a single service while dramatically expanding the diversity of available media content by pulling from many different providers.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system merges content from multiple streaming services into a unified delivery mechanism. By combining the content libraries and streaming capabilities of numerous services through a single interface, the system allows users to access diverse content without needing to navigate multiple separate platforms, thus maintaining ease of operation while expanding content diversity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Measurement precision

If the system monitors and processes media content from multiple streaming services, then the personalization accuracy improves, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprecision of preference matchingVSAvoidcomplexity of monitoring system

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies segmentation by dividing the complex monitoring task into distinct modular components. The system separates content acquisition, metadata extraction, preference matching, and content delivery into independent modules. Each module handles a specific aspect of the process, making the overall complex system manageable and maintainable while still achieving high precision in preference matching through the coordinated work of multiple specialized components.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10225590B2Method and system of dynamic routing of aggregated online media streams

Publication Date: 2019.03.05 R2 SOLUTIONS LLC

AI summary

Disclosure includes a system, method and architecture to monitor media content streams, e.g., streams of digital encoded media data such as without limitation audio and/or video data, from a number of media content streaming providers and identify media content items from those media content items being streamed by the media content streaming providers for inclusion in a personalized media content stream for a user. In a direct streaming approach, the media content items contained in a stream are available while each item is being streamed by the content provider. In a centralized streaming approach, media content items contained in each media content stream that is currently being streamed by content provider are available for a limited window of time, which can be dependent on buffer length.