Ephemeral Media Feed Subscription Bypass via Popularity Metrics
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional approaches require users to subscribe to other users to access ephemeral media content, which can be inconvenient for users who do not want to establish a connection or are unaware of content creators, leading to inefficiencies in content discovery and interaction.
Innovation Solution
A system that identifies user accounts based on popularity metrics and location, providing access to public ephemeral media content without the need for subscription, allowing users to view content from accounts that have not been subscribed to, and dynamically updates the content feed based on user interactions and preferences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users must subscribe to other users to access ephemeral media content, then content creators can maintain control over their audience, but content accessibility and user convenience deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the subscription requirement from the content access process. Users can now access public ephemeral media content directly without needing to subscribe to the content creator's account. The system separates content discovery and consumption from the subscription mechanism, allowing users to view content from accounts they don't follow.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a curated feed as an intermediary between users and content creators. This feed aggregates public ephemeral media content from multiple creators without requiring users to directly connect or subscribe to each creator. The system acts as a mediator that delivers content while maintaining creator control over their public content settings.
2Productivity
If users can access content without subscription, then content discovery improves, but content creator control and audience management worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different access rules to different content visibility settings. Public ephemeral media content is accessible without subscription, while private or friends-only content remains restricted. Content creators maintain full control over their audience by choosing their privacy settings, while the system enables broad access to publicly marked content through the curated feed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts content accessibility based on the creator's privacy settings and the user's subscription status. The curated feed adapts to user preferences and interactions, learning which creators and content types the user is interested in while maintaining the ability to control access levels through configurable settings.
3Ease of operation
If a curated feed is provided without subscription, then user convenience improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a multi-functional system where the same infrastructure supports both traditional subscription-based feeds and the new curated feed. The system can operate in multiple modes: traditional follower feeds, curated public content feeds, and hybrid approaches. This universal architecture reduces overall complexity by consolidating functionality rather than creating separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-curates and organizes public ephemeral media content from multiple creators before presenting it to users. By preparing and filtering content in advance based on popularity metrics, user preferences, and relevance algorithms, the system reduces the computational complexity of real-time content delivery and improves user experience without requiring complex on-demand processing.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can detect a trigger to provide public ephemeral media content to a viewing user account. A subset of user accounts can be identified, out of a set of user accounts, based on a respective popularity metric for each user account in the subset. The subset of user accounts can be identified such that each user account to be included in the subset has respectively shared one or more public ephemeral media content items within a specified time period. The subset of user accounts can be identified such that each user account to be included in the subset has not been subscribed to by the viewing user account. The viewing user account can be provided with access to the subset of user accounts.