Guest Interest Notifications on Host TVs via Network Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Guests visiting a user's home cannot control or set notifications on the host's television or display device to view their preferred content, as they lack access to the user's account settings.
Innovation Solution
A media guidance application detects guest devices on a network, retrieves their user profiles, and generates notifications based on their interests and preferences, allowing them to receive alerts for events of interest on the host's display device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the host's account settings are used to control notifications on the television, then the host can manage notification settings, but guests cannot access or modify these settings to view their preferred content
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system is designed to support multiple user accounts and profiles, allowing both hosts and guests to access and customize notification settings for their respective interests. The system universally handles different user types (host and guest) through a unified architecture that retrieves interests from guest profiles and generates personalized notifications alongside host notifications.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system monitors network devices to identify guests, then guest detection and notification generation is enabled, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects guest devices on the network and retrieves their profile information without requiring manual intervention from the host. The media guidance application autonomously monitors network traffic, identifies unknown devices, fetches guest interests from stored profiles, and configures notification settings automatically, reducing the need for complex manual configuration systems.
3Loss of information
If notifications are generated based on guest interests from their profiles, then guests receive personalized content alerts, but the system requires access to and processing of multiple user profiles
Solution Approach 1:
Guest profile information including interests and preferences is pre-stored in the system before the guest arrives. When a guest device is detected on the network, the system retrieves the pre-stored profile data and immediately begins generating personalized notifications based on those interests, eliminating the need for real-time profile creation or complex data processing during the guest's visit.
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AI summary
Methods and systems are provided herein for generating notifications based on the interests of guests. Guests may request notifications on their host's television, and the system will generate notifications based on the guest's interests and preferences as stored in the guest's user profile. In doing so, the guest will be notified of events of interest, such as when a favorite sports team scores a point or when an important scene in a favorite movie is playing. The system monitors the network of the apartment or house and detects when a guest device is accessing the network. The system then accesses the guest's interests and identifies a set of programs based on these interests. The system then monitors these programs and generates notifications on the display device when an event of interest has occurred in one of the identified programs.