Interactive Video Preview via HTML Markup Language

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing web platforms require users to navigate multiple areas to gather information, leading to inefficiencies, increased network resource consumption, and prolonged loading times due to the inability to define personalized content and interact with videos in a seamless manner.

Innovation Solution

The system generates interactive videos as a series of HTML pages, allowing users to interact with embedded links and elements, reducing the need to navigate between pages, and employing a progress bar that links video scenes and elements with variable timing characteristics, enabling dynamic content modification and previewing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If users navigate multiple areas within the web platform to gather information, then they can access comprehensive content, but network resource consumption increases and loading time prolongs

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidnetwork resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple web pages into a single interactive video format, merging statistics, account balance checks, and instructional content into one unified delivery mechanism. This consolidation allows users to access all necessary information in one location rather than navigating multiple separate pages, thereby reducing network requests and resource consumption while maintaining information completeness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The interactive video serves multiple functions simultaneously: it presents stock statistics, checks account balance, provides trading instructions, and enables user interaction all within a single format. This multi-functionality eliminates 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 areas within the web platform to gather information, then they can access comprehensive content, but loading time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidloading time
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

By merging multiple information sources into a single interactive video, the system eliminates the sequential loading of multiple pages. Users receive all necessary information simultaneously through one video delivery, dramatically reducing the total time required to gather comprehensive content compared to visiting multiple separate pages

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system prepares and delivers all necessary information (statistics, balance checks, instructions) in advance within the interactive video format before the user begins viewing. This preliminary consolidation of content means users don't experience delayed loading as they would when navigating to additional pages during the interaction process

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

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

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo playback compatibilityVSAvoidcomputing resources
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces traditional video file formats with HTML-based interactive video pages. This substitution allows the system to deliver video content as web pages that can be rendered by browsers, eliminating the need for separate video playback software and reducing the computational overhead associated with processing and streaming traditional video formats while maintaining playback compatibility

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

4Adaptability or versatility

If interactive elements are embedded in HTML pages of the video, then user interaction capability increases, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interaction capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The HTML-based interactive video pages serve multiple purposes: they display video content, provide interactive elements for user engagement, handle navigation, and process user inputs all within a single unified system. This multi-functionality increases user interaction capability while avoiding the need for separate complex systems for each function, as the HTML framework handles diverse tasks through standard web technologies

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11481098B2Video previews for interactive videos using a markup language
Publication Date: 2022.10.25 BANK OF AMERICA CORP
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AI summary

A device configured to display a first video scene and a progress bar and to receive a user input that indicates a time instance value on the progress bar. The device is further configured to identify a first source scene identifier for a second video scene and an animation identifier that is linked with the second video scene based on the time instance value. The device is further configured to identify computer programming code that is associated with the first source scene identifier and the first animation identifier and to compile the identified computer programming code to render the second video scene. The device is further configured to generate a scaled second video scene by reducing a size of the rendered second video scene to fit a preview frame and to display the scaled second video scene in the preview frame.