Interactable Comment Elements for Media Recommendation Accuracy

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current graphical user interfaces for media assets face challenges in providing relevant recommendations, as they often rely on incomplete metadata and do not effectively utilize user interactions, such as comments, to enhance recommendation accuracy and user experience.

Innovation Solution

The system analyzes text comments to identify interactable elements, incorporating metadata from both the media asset and the viewing device, and modifies the comment interface to include hyperlinks and supplemental content, allowing for improved search functionality and recommendation generation based on user interactions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If recommendations are provided based on metadata and popularity only, then recommendation generation is simple, but recommendation accuracy is low because user interaction data like comments are not utilized

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecommendation accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple data sources including media asset metadata, device metadata, comment text data, and popularity metrics into a unified recommendation generation system. This combination allows the system to leverage user interaction data from comments while maintaining the existing metadata-based recommendation framework, thereby improving recommendation accuracy without requiring a complete system overhaul

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary text analysis on comments to identify interactable elements and generate search results before the user even requests recommendations. By pre-processing comment data and creating searchable indexes of user-generated content, the system prepares recommendation data in advance, reducing computational load during actual recommendation generation while improving accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If all available media assets are provided as recommendations, then no filtering is needed, but the interface becomes cluttered and user experience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinterface clarityVSAvoidsearch efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by making specific portions of comment text interactable rather than treating all text uniformly. By identifying and highlighting key terms, entities, and phrases within comments that are relevant to the current media asset, the system creates focused, context-relevant recommendations while keeping the interface clean and uncluttered. Only the most relevant comment portions are transformed into interactable recommendation elements

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system extracts meaningful information from comment text by identifying interactable elements such as keywords, entities, and phrases that are relevant to the media asset. This extraction process separates useful recommendation data from the bulk of comment text, allowing the interface to display only the most relevant recommendations derived from comments rather than all possible media assets

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Measurement precision

If comment text is analyzed to generate search results, then recommendation relevance improves, but computational load and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecommendation relevanceVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary text analysis on comments to identify interactable elements, extract keywords, and generate search indexes in advance. By pre-processing comment data and creating searchable structures before they are needed for recommendation generation, the system reduces computational load during actual user interactions while maintaining high recommendation relevance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies partial action by analyzing only the necessary portions of comment text rather than processing entire comments uniformly. The system identifies and processes only the interactable elements within comments that are relevant to the current media asset context, avoiding unnecessary computational overhead while maintaining recommendation quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS12052474B2Systems and methods for generating interactable elements in text strings relating to media assets
Publication Date: 2024.07.30 ADEIA GUIDES INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods for improving displays of media assets are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a system receives a plurality of text comments from a plurality of devices to which a media asset was transmitted. The system analyzes the comments to identify text strings within the text comments. The system generates interactable elements from the text strings in the text comments, such that an interaction with the text string causes display of identifiers of media assets corresponding to the text string.