Interactive Video Markup for Resource-Constrained Information Delivery

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing web platforms require users to navigate multiple areas to gather information, leading to inefficiencies, increased network and computing resource consumption, and prolonged information retrieval times, degrading user satisfaction.

Innovation Solution

Creating interactive videos in the form of series of HTML pages, allowing users to interact with embedded HTML links and elements, reducing the need to visit multiple web pages and conserving resources by rendering and streaming as HTML pages, which requires less computing and network resources compared to traditional video formats like MP4 or MOV.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If users navigate multiple web pages to gather information, then they can access comprehensive information, but network resource consumption increases and information retrieval time is prolonged

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidnetwork resource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple web pages into a single interactive video that consolidates stock statistics, account balance information, and trading tutorial content. This integration allows users to access all necessary information in one location rather than navigating multiple separate pages, thereby reducing network resource consumption while maintaining information completeness

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The interactive video serves multiple functions simultaneously: it displays stock performance data, shows account balance information, provides trading instructions, and enables direct trading actions. This multi-functional approach replaces the need for users to visit multiple specialized pages, reducing overall network traffic while delivering comprehensive information

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Loss of information

If users navigate multiple web pages to gather information, then they can access comprehensive information, but information retrieval time increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidinformation retrieval time

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

By combining multiple information sources into a single interactive video, the system eliminates the time users would spend navigating between pages. All relevant information—stock stats, account balance, and trading instructions—is presented simultaneously in one unified interface, dramatically reducing information retrieval time while maintaining completeness

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Speed

If traditional video formats (MP4, MOV, AVI) are used, then video playback is smooth, but computing resources and network bandwidth are heavily consumed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevideo playback smoothnessVSAvoidcomputing resource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces traditional video formats with HTML-based interactive video that uses web technologies instead of heavy video encoding. This substitution delivers comparable playback smoothness while significantly reducing computing resource requirements for rendering and network bandwidth for streaming, as HTML content is more efficiently processed by modern web browsers

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This approach enhances user efficiency by allowing interaction within a single video, reducing loading and buffering times, conserving resources, and improving response times, thereby enhancing user satisfaction.

Implementation Method 1

determine that the first animation is configured for text-to-audio. The device is further configured to identify text associated with the first animation and to convert the text associated with the first animation into an audio sample

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectText-to-audio conversion:

Data Source

PatentUS11350185B2Text-to-audio for interactive videos using a markup language

Publication Date: 2022.05.31 BANK OF AMERICA CORP

AI summary

A device configured to receive a video request that includes animation instructions for a video scene. The animation instructions identify one or more animations associated with the video scene. The device is further configured to identify a first animation from the one or more animations associated with the video scene and to determine that the first animation is configured for text-to-audio. The device is further configured to identify text associated with the first animation and to convert the text associated with the first animation into an audio sample. The device is further configured to associate the audio sample with an animation identifier for the first animation in an audio sample buffer. The device is further configured to associate a timestamp with a source scene identifier for the video scene and the animation identifier for the first animation in the video timing map.