Interactive Live Program Polling for Delayed Stream Viewers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Time-shifting technologies in media distribution systems cause time-sensitive interactive content, such as polls, to become outdated or unavailable for users consuming live programs delayed relative to the live stream, leading to lost respondents and reduced engagement.
Innovation Solution
Systems and methods that generate interactive content, such as polls, prior to the presentation of events in a live program, allowing users to select predicted outcomes, and provide indications of correctness, even if their consumption is delayed, by integrating with the same computing device providing the live program.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If time-shifting technologies are used to delay live program broadcast to user convenience, then user convenience is improved, but interactive content becomes outdated or unavailable
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by detecting upcoming events in the live program stream before they are presented to the user, and proactively presenting interactive content opportunities in advance. This allows users to participate in interactive content even when viewing delayed, as the system has already identified and prepared the interactive opportunities based on the program schedule and event data.
2Loss of information
If interactive content is presented in real-time relative to live program stream, then interactive content relevance is improved, but delayed users cannot participate
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the timing of interactive content presentation based on the user's playback position and the detected delay. Instead of fixed real-time presentation, the system flexibly determines when to present interactive content by comparing the user's current position in the delayed stream with upcoming events in the original live stream, allowing participation regardless of delay duration.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a copy of the interactive content opportunity timing from the live stream perspective and maps it to the user's delayed playback position. By copying the event schedule and transforming it relative to the user's current playback position, the system presents interactive content at appropriate moments in the delayed stream that correspond to upcoming events.
3Loss of time
If users fast-forward to catch up with live event, then user engagement with live event is improved, but interactive content participation is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by presenting interactive content opportunities before the user reaches the corresponding event in the delayed stream. By detecting upcoming events and presenting interactive content in advance of the user's playback position, the system ensures users can participate before fast-forwarding or before the event concludes, preserving both time efficiency and interactive engagement.
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AI summary
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described herein for generating, for presentation at a particular computing device, a display of a live program and determining that the display of the live program at the particular computing device is delayed in relation to a live program stream of the live program. Interactive content related to a particular event that is to occur in the live program stream of the live program may be received, the interactive content enabling selection of a predicted outcome of the particular event. Prior to presentation of the particular event in the display of the live program at the particular computing device, the interactive content may be generated for presentation at the particular computing device, and a selection of the predicted outcome is received. Based on determining an outcome of the particular event, an indication of whether the predicted outcome was correct may be generated for presentation.