Franchise Content Compliance Platform for User-Generated Media

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems for creating user-generated content in video games lack the ability to ensure compliance with franchise standards, leading to potential anachronisms or misuse of original characters, as they often lack constraints and policies to govern the creation and distribution of new content.

Innovation Solution

A platform that derives building blocks from original content, provides a search interface for users to select and manipulate these blocks, and applies franchise policies to ensure compliance, using a composition module to create and render user-generated content as video or audio clips while enforcing community and legal standards.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If users are allowed to create and distribute new content freely, then user-generated content quantity and diversity increase, but franchise compliance and character integrity deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser-generated content quantityVSAvoidfranchise compliance
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary system comprising a content management platform and policy enforcement module that sits between users and the franchise content ecosystem. This intermediary automatically evaluates user-generated content against predefined franchise policies, character guidelines, and quality standards, allowing high-volume user participation while maintaining compliance through automated mediation rather than restrictive manual review

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing comprehensive policy frameworks, character usage guidelines, and quality standards before users create content. The content management platform proactively evaluates and filters content against these pre-defined criteria during the creation process, preventing non-compliant content from being distributed rather than reacting to violations after they occur

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Manufacturing precision

If franchise policies and compliance checks are implemented, then content quality and character integrity improve, but content creation complexity and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent qualityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The content management platform enables self-service by providing users with automated policy checking tools, real-time compliance feedback, and self-correction capabilities during the content creation process. Users can independently ensure their content meets franchise standards without requiring complex manual review workflows, reducing the perceived system complexity while maintaining high content quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system manages complexity by dynamically adjusting evaluation parameters and policy enforcement strictness based on content type, user reputation, and franchise requirements. The content management platform can modify checking depth, approval thresholds, and review intensity to balance quality assurance with processing efficiency, preventing the system from becoming overly complex while maintaining manufacturing precision

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If automated policy enforcement is applied, then franchise compliance is maintained, but user creativity and content flexibility are restricted

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefranchise complianceVSAvoidcontent flexibility
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic policy enforcement where the content management platform adjusts compliance requirements and evaluation criteria based on the specific content context, user history, and franchise needs. The system can temporarily relax certain restrictions for approved creators or allow experimental content types under controlled conditions, maintaining franchise compliance while preserving user creativity and content flexibility through adaptive rather than rigid enforcement

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11347387B1System for fan-based creation and composition of cross-franchise content
Publication Date: 2022.05.31 AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I L P
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AI summary

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device having a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of deriving one or more building blocks from original content of a franchise; providing a search interface enabling a user to discover the one or more building blocks, wherein the user selects a set of building blocks from the one or more building blocks for creating user generated content; providing a composition module enabling the user to manipulate the set of building blocks to create the user generated content; and applying one or more policies of the franchise concerning the user generated content, wherein the one or more policies ensure that the user generated content complies with objectives of the franchise. Other embodiments are disclosed.