Geo-Location Synchronized User Circles for Content Interaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies do not facilitate user-to-user interaction during video or audio content consumption, particularly in a geo-location based and synchronized manner, requiring separate devices and channels for private communication, and fail to synchronize content and comments effectively.
Innovation Solution
A system with a hub that enables geo-location based user circles, allowing users to share comments and synchronize content with comments in real-time or time-delayed fashion, using user devices and networked components for secure and private interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users want to interact in a group regarding program content, then user-to-user engagement is improved, but current systems require multiple separate devices and communications channels
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines content delivery and user interaction/commentary functions into a single integrated system. The commentary infrastructure is merged with the content distribution network, allowing users to both receive content and exchange comments through the same device and communication channel, eliminating the need for separate devices and channels.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a universal platform where the same device and communication channel serve multiple functions: content reception, user commentary transmission, and group interaction. This multi-functional approach allows a single system to handle both content consumption and social engagement without requiring additional specialized equipment.
2Loss of information
If user comments are provided to a broadcaster, then content feedback is improved, but comments are presented to all users receiving the program transport stream
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements selective comment distribution based on user group identifiers. Comments are not uniformly distributed to all users but are targeted to specific groups identified by circle IDs. This allows the same comment infrastructure to provide both broad feedback to broadcasters and private, targeted communication to specific user groups, resolving the contradiction between information delivery and privacy.
3Device complexity
If comments flow independently of content stream, then comment transmission is simplified, but content and comments cannot be synchronized
Solution Approach 1:
The system establishes a feedback loop between content delivery and comment transmission. The commentary infrastructure receives feedback about content state (such as pause events) and adjusts comment delivery accordingly. This feedback mechanism enables synchronization without requiring complex independent tracking systems, as the comment flow responds to content stream events.
Solution Approach 2:
The comment transmission system is made dynamic rather than static. Comments can be paused, resumed, or adjusted based on real-time content stream events such as pauses or interruptions. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to maintain synchronization between content and comments while keeping the transmission infrastructure relatively simple.
4Ease of operation
If a user pauses the content stream, then content consumption is controlled, but the user may be unwittingly notified of content progression
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback to users about content stream state changes, particularly pause events. When content is paused, the system notifies users and can pause commentary transmission accordingly. This feedback loop prevents users from being unwittingly notified of content progression while maintaining their control over the playback experience.
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AI summary
Devices, systems and processes for providing geo-located and content-to-comment synchronized user circles are described. For at least one embodiment, a system for facilitating a geo-location based user circle may include a hub configured to facilitate a sharing of comments between a first user and a second user via a user circle. The first user and the second user may be selected for participation in the user circle based upon a circleID associated each of a first user device and a second user device. A first user device, communicatively coupled to the hub, may be configured to facilitate a capture of the comments provided by the first user. A second user device, communicatively coupled to the hub, may be configured to facilitate a presentation of the comments to the second user. And, a second device geoID may be used to indicate a location of the second user device.