Event-Ranked Live Stream Playback Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems for streaming live content struggle to accurately detect events and provide users with relevant navigation options, especially when dealing with delayed content streams due to factors like network delays or user preferences, which can lead to a suboptimal viewing experience.

Innovation Solution

A system that monitors live content streams to detect events, assigns ranks to these events, and controls the display of content and navigation menu options based on the detected events, allowing for automatic navigation to important events and efficient resource management to prevent stalls or degradations in the viewing experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If the system plays back a delayed portion of the live content stream, then the user can view earlier content, but the user may miss important events occurring in the live portion of the stream

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess to earlier contentVSAvoidmissing important events

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary detection of events in the live portion of the stream before the user finishes viewing the delayed portion. When an important event is detected, the system proactively notifies the user and can automatically navigate to the event, preventing the user from missing critical content while still allowing flexible playback of delayed portions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If the system provides multiple navigation options for different portions of the stream, then the user can navigate to desired content, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenavigation flexibilityVSAvoidnavigation interface complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically monitors the content stream, detects events, and generates relevant navigation options without requiring the user to manually explore complex navigation menus. The system serves itself by intelligently determining what navigation options are most relevant based on detected events, thereby providing versatility while keeping the interface simple.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of providing uniform navigation options throughout the entire stream, the system dynamically adjusts navigation options based on local conditions - specifically, what events are currently occurring or have recently occurred in different portions of the stream. This provides context-relevant navigation options rather than a static comprehensive menu.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

3Reliability

If the system automatically navigates to important events, then the user experiences improved content delivery, but the user's preferred viewing pace may be disrupted

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent delivery qualityVSAvoiduser control over playback

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides feedback to the user about detected events and seeks user preference before automatically navigating. The user can indicate whether they want to be notified of events, automatically navigate to them, or continue viewing the current delayed portion. This feedback loop maintains user control while enabling intelligent content delivery improvements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

4Measurement precision

If the system monitors the live content stream continuously to detect events, then event detection accuracy improves, but the use of energy and processing resources increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveevent detection accuracyVSAvoidprocessing resource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of continuously analyzing every frame of the live stream, the system employs periodic event detection at strategically chosen intervals and based on trigger conditions. The system can adjust the detection frequency dynamically, performing more intensive analysis when the playback position is close to the live portion and less intensive analysis when viewing older content, thereby balancing detection accuracy with resource consumption.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentUS20230090777A1Intelligent display of content based on event monitoring

Publication Date: 2023.03.23 ADEIA GUIDES INC

AI summary

Systems and methods for displaying content based on event monitoring are disclosed herein. A computing device plays a delayed portion of a live content stream communicated to the computing device via a communication network. The computing device detects an event in the live content stream and determines a rank of the event. Based on the rank of the event, the computing device determines whether to play the event instead of the delayed portion of the live content stream. In response to determining to play the event, the computing device plays the event instead of the delayed portion of the live content stream.