Internet Video Link Service for Custom Channel Provisioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current internet television systems, such as Sony's BIVL, lack the ability for users to directly input URLs or search for specific internet content on their existing television equipment, limiting the scope of available digital media and requiring costly upgrades to both devices and infrastructure.
Innovation Solution
The Internet Video Link (IVL) service allows users to input URLs and create custom channels using existing television equipment, enabling dynamic provisioning of internet content through a system that communicates with an IVL Manager and Aggregator, utilizing metadata and user keywords to categorize and mix video content, and automatically updates available channels.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users want to access specific internet content by inputting URLs or searching, then the scope of available digital media content is improved, but current television equipment lacks the necessary functionality and would require costly upgrades
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary service system that bridges the gap between existing television equipment and internet content access. The service receives URL inputs and search queries from users through their existing TVs, processes these requests through backend servers, and delivers the requested content without requiring users to upgrade their television hardware. This mediator approach allows functionality expansion while preserving legacy device compatibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The service system is designed to provide multiple functions through a unified platform: URL input processing, search functionality, content provisioning, and channel creation. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single service architecture, the system enables existing television equipment to access various types of internet content without requiring separate hardware upgrades for each function.
2Ease of operation
If users want to directly input URLs and create custom channels, then user control and ownership of content is improved, but the system complexity and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables users to directly input URLs and create their own custom channels through their existing television equipment. Users have self-service control over content selection, channel creation, and content provisioning without requiring complex manual configuration or professional setup. The service handles the complex backend processing automatically, allowing users to focus on content selection rather than system configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The service acts as an intermediary that handles the complex infrastructure requirements behind the scenes while presenting a simple interface to users. The mediator manages URL processing, content retrieval, channel provisioning, and metadata handling, shielding users from system complexity while enabling sophisticated content access and customization capabilities.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system provisions content from multiple internet sources, then the variety of digital media is improved, but quality control and content management become more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the service receives and processes metadata from various internet content sources, automatically categorizes and organizes the content, and provisions it through controlled channels. The feedback loop includes content validation, quality assessment, and automated channel creation based on metadata analysis, ensuring that diverse content from multiple sources maintains consistent quality standards before reaching users.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for establishing and provisioning a new Internet Video Link (IVL) category. The new IVL category has video content located on a local device as well as retrieved from any internet URL provided by a user. The IVL category is built in the background and contains a category as a directory of video content and channels as sub-directories containing subsets of the category's video content. The user may carry out keyword searching video content to establish a mix of video content concatenated into a single mix channel. Alternatively, the mix channel may be provisioned by locating and mixing together video content that has similar metadata tags associated with the user preferred video content. The user may also receive recommendations for IVL content. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.