IPTV Second Display Session Personalization
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Solution Overview
Problem
IPTV systems face challenges in content navigation and management due to their shared nature and limited user interface customization, which affects disparate users' experiences and increases hardware costs when trying to accommodate various functions and preferences.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system that allows multiple users to personalize their browsing experience on a single IPTV device using secondary displays, such as smartphones or laptops, with customizable language, layout, and content filtering, enabling each user to tailor their interface and content selection according to their preferences without requiring additional hardware investments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If multiple users share a single IPTV device with uniform interface, then hardware costs are reduced, but user experience personalization deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the user experience by introducing session-based personalization layers that divide the uniform interface into user-specific viewing contexts. Each user receives a customized interface view through session management without requiring separate hardware devices, thus maintaining hardware consolidation while enabling experience differentiation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by allowing different interface characteristics (language, layout, content filters) to be applied locally to each user's session view. This enables personalized interface properties for individual users while the underlying hardware and system architecture remain shared and uniform across all users.
2Adaptability or versatility
If remote controller is designed for all possible functions, then user functionality is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements universality by using a single remote controller that can serve multiple user profiles and functions through software-based session management. The remote controller maintains a consistent physical design while the system dynamically adapts its functionality based on the active user session, eliminating the need for specialized controllers for different functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces session management as an intermediary layer between the uniform remote controller and the diverse user requirements. This mediator translates single-controller inputs into personalized actions based on the active user's profile, preferences, and session context, allowing one controller to effectively serve multiple specialized functions.
3Stability of the object's composition
If IPTV interface is made uniform for all users, then device consistency is improved, but user preference adaptation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies dynamics by making the interface adaptable through session-based configuration. While the base interface structure remains consistent and stable, the system dynamically adjusts interface properties (language, layout, content filters) based on the active user's preferences and session context, allowing the interface to transition between uniformity and personalization as needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements parameter changes by allowing interface parameters (language, layout style, content rating filters) to be modified based on user preferences within each session. The core interface structure remains stable and consistent, but specific parameters can be changed to adapt to individual user preferences without affecting the overall system consistency or other users' experiences.
4Ease of operation
If content navigation is simplified for shared devices, then ease of operation is improved, but content search effectiveness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies preliminary action by pre-configuring session parameters based on user preferences before content navigation begins. User profiles store preferred languages, layouts, and content filters that are automatically applied when a user starts a session, eliminating the need for manual configuration during each use and enabling both ease of operation and effective content search from the outset.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms that track user interactions and content selection patterns within each session. This feedback is used to refine and personalize the content navigation experience for each user, improving search effectiveness by learning from user behavior while maintaining simple, consistent navigation patterns that are easy to operate.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are provided to allow users to browse services, content items, or the like using a personalized user interface. Thus, for example, users can browse content offerings on the second display in a language and font set that are personalized to themselves. Users may also browse offerings that match a parental ratings setting, and use a background image and layout of their choice. The second displays generally do not require additional investment by the user because the same make use of a device, e.g., a smartphone, laptop computer, tablet computer, an internet appliance, a desktop computer, etc., which most users would already have in their possession. Such a second display is a significant complement to an IPTV because of the second display's strength in supported languages and character font sets, flexible user interface, data entry, processing power, and user experience in content management.