Contextual Recommendations in Gaming Media Streams

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current data center technologies do not effectively provide personalized gaming content recommendations to users based on their social network and historical data, limiting the dynamic and user-specific enhancement of gaming experiences.

Innovation Solution

A broadcast service that processes gaming media streams to generate contextual recommendations by utilizing personalization information, such as social network and historical data, to provide users with dynamic and user-specific content recommendations, which can be integrated into the gaming experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If current data center technologies are used without personalization, then system complexity is reduced, but user engagement and satisfaction deteriorate due to lack of personalized recommendations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments users into different groups based on their gaming preferences, behavior patterns, and social network characteristics. This segmentation enables personalized recommendations without requiring the system to handle every user's unique preferences individually, thus managing complexity while maintaining adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of user data, gaming patterns, and social network information in advance to pre-compute recommendation profiles. This preliminary action allows the system to quickly deliver personalized recommendations during gaming sessions without real-time computation overhead, resolving the contradiction between personalization and system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If comprehensive social network and historical data are collected for personalization, then recommendation accuracy is improved, but data processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecommendation accuracyVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-processes and analyzes user social network data, historical gaming data, and preference information before gaming sessions begin. By performing this data processing in advance, the system builds ready-to-use recommendation profiles that can be quickly retrieved and presented during gaming, thus maintaining high recommendation accuracy while minimizing real-time processing time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The recommendation system dynamically adjusts the amount and type of data processed based on user context, gaming session duration, and priority levels. For time-sensitive scenarios, the system focuses on high-impact features, while for less time-constrained situations, it performs more comprehensive analysis, thus balancing accuracy and processing time flexibly.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Adaptability or versatility

If real-time personalized recommendations are provided during gaming, then user engagement is improved, but system response time requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereal-time personalizationVSAvoidsystem response time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSSpeed

Solution Approach 1:

The system prepares personalized recommendation content in advance based on user profiles and contextual information before the gaming session starts. During the actual gaming session, the pre-prepared recommendations are quickly delivered with minimal processing, thus achieving real-time personalization without imposing heavy response time requirements on the system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11673044B1Contextual recommendations in media streaming
Publication Date: 2023.06.13 AMAZON TECH INC
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AI summary

A system and method for providing contextual recommendations in gaming media streams. One or more users request a gaming media stream broadcast corresponding to game play. A broadcast service obtains the gaming media stream that includes a gaming stream identifier and user identifier. The broadcast service can generate a set of recommendations based on at least one of social network information, historical information, and identification of events and items in the gaming media stream. The broadcast service provides the gaming media stream with one or more recommended items.