Event-Triggered Media Content Selection Paths
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face challenges in selecting media content from large collections, even with subscription-based services providing unlimited access, as manual selection is required, and there is a need for an automated system to streamline this process.
Innovation Solution
A system and method using events to trigger content selection paths, where stimuli such as chronological, location-based, user-based, or weather-based events trigger specific media content selections, allowing the system to automatically obtain media content from a subscription-based service.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual selection of media content is required, then user control over content selection is maintained, but user effort and time consumption increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically selects media content from the subscription service without requiring manual user intervention. The content selection agent autonomously traverses content selection paths, detects events, and retrieves media content, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring continuous user input for content selection.
Solution Approach 2:
Content selection paths are pre-defined with sequences of media content organized by various criteria (chronological, location-based, user-based, weather-based events). The system prepares these paths in advance so that when triggering events occur, content can be selected automatically without real-time manual browsing or selection by the user.
2Quantity of substance
If access to large collection of media content is provided, then content availability is improved, but difficulty in selecting appropriate content increases
Solution Approach 1:
The large media content collection is segmented into multiple content selection paths, each organized by specific criteria such as chronological order, location-based categories, user-based preferences, or weather-based themes. Each path represents a manageable subset of content that can be traversed systematically, transforming the overwhelming single large collection into multiple organized, navigable sequences.
Solution Approach 2:
The content selection agent acts as an intermediary between the user and the large media content collection. Instead of requiring users to directly navigate through vast content libraries, the agent detects events, selects appropriate content selection paths, and retrieves media content automatically, serving as a mediator that simplifies the interaction between user and content.
3Extent of automation
If automated content selection is implemented, then user effort is reduced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The content selection agent is designed as a universal system that can handle multiple types of events (chronological, location-based, user-based, weather-based) and traverse various content selection paths using the same fundamental mechanisms. This multi-functionality allows the system to automate diverse content selection scenarios without requiring separate specialized systems for each event type, thereby managing complexity through consolidation.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method using events to traverse a content selection path for the purpose of providing media content selections are provided. In general, events are defined based on one or more stimulus such as, but not limited to, a chronological-based stimulus, a location-based stimulus, a user-based stimulus, a third-party stimulus, or a weather-based stimulus. Each of the events is used to trigger one or more associated content selection paths. A content selection path generally defines a set of media content and a manner of stepping through the defined set of media content. In operation, when an event is detected, the associated content selection path is triggered to step to the next step in the content selection path, thereby identifying the media content selections. Then, according to one embodiment of the present invention, the media content selections are obtained from a remote subscription-based service.