Entertainment Device Advertising Content Tracking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing entertainment devices in public venues lack effective mechanisms to deliver targeted and interactive advertising, limiting advertisers' ability to engage users and measure campaign success.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for entertainment devices that allow advertisers to display static and interactive advertisements, capturing user interactions and venue data, enabling targeted campaigns and efficient reporting of advertisement performance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If advertising content is displayed on entertainment devices, then advertisers can reach users and engage with branded content, but the system lacks mechanisms to capture user interaction data and measure campaign success

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertising engagement capabilityVSAvoiduser interaction data
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms by capturing user interaction data (clicks, views, time spent) on advertising content displayed on entertainment devices and transmitting this data back to the advertiser through a network connection. This allows advertisers to measure campaign effectiveness and adjust strategies based on actual user behavior, resolving the contradiction between engagement capability and data capture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Ease of operation

If interactive advertising content is provided, then user engagement and entertainment value increase, but the device complexity and data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interaction with advertisementVSAvoidadvertising system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent makes the entertainment device multi-functional by integrating both entertainment content delivery and advertising content delivery capabilities. The same display interface and user interaction mechanisms are used for both purposes, eliminating the need for separate dedicated advertising hardware and reducing overall system complexity while maintaining interactive advertising functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Illumination intensity

If advertising content is integrated into entertainment device interfaces, then advertising visibility increases, but the user interface space for entertainment functions is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertising content visibilityVSAvoiduser interface space
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the display interface into distinct regions: one dedicated to entertainment content and another to advertising content. This segmentation allows both entertainment and advertising to be displayed simultaneously without one completely overwhelming the other, maintaining adequate space for user interaction with entertainment functions while ensuring advertising visibility through dedicated display areas.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS7937724B2Advertising content tracking for an entertainment device
Publication Date: 2011.05.03 AMI ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK LLC
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AI summary

Systems and methods of processing data from a plurality of entertainment devices are provided. The method may include: receiving user interaction information, said user interaction information comprising information regarding user interaction with an advertisement displayed on an entertainment device, said entertainment device being configured to perform entertainment content; and associating the user interaction information with venue information regarding a venue in which the entertainment device is located. The system may include: an entertainment device database including information regarding a plurality of entertainment devices configured to perform entertainment content; a storage system storing user interaction information received from the plurality of entertainment devices, said user interaction information comprising information regarding user interaction with an advertisement displayed on an entertainment device; and a processor configured to associate the user interaction information for one of the plurality of entertainment devices with venue information regarding a venue in which the one of the plurality of entertainment devices is located.