Linking Video Sharing Accounts with Content Delivery Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
In video sharing environments, users face difficulties in accessing comprehensive video-related information across multiple accounts without repeatedly providing login credentials, limiting their ability to manage and analyze performance metrics and video parameters.
Innovation Solution
A control is provided in a user interface for a content delivery system that links a content delivery account with one or more video sharing accounts, allowing users to access video-related information, including organic performance metrics, demographic, and geographic data, without requiring constant login credentials, and enabling adjustments to video parameters and overlays.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users access multiple video sharing accounts separately, then they can access comprehensive video-related information, but they must repeatedly provide login credentials for each account
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple video sharing accounts with a single content delivery account through a linking mechanism. The system stores associations between content delivery account identifiers and video sharing account identifiers, allowing users to access information from multiple video sharing accounts through one unified login, eliminating repeated credential entry while maintaining comprehensive information access
Solution Approach 2:
The content delivery account serves as an intermediary that bridges multiple video sharing accounts. The system introduces a linking table or data structure that associates content delivery account identifiers with video sharing account identifiers, acting as a mediator that enables unified access without requiring direct credentials for each video sharing account
2Ease of operation
If users manage multiple video sharing accounts independently, then they maintain security control, but they face difficulty in unified performance analysis and management
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the account management system into distinct functional layers: content delivery account management, video sharing account management, and a linking layer that associates them. This segmentation allows independent management of each account type while enabling unified access through the linking mechanism, reducing operational complexity without compromising security control
3Ease of operation
If users link video sharing accounts with content delivery accounts, then they can access information without repeated login, but they must securely verify access rights
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary verification of access rights during the account linking process. Before establishing the link between content delivery account and video sharing account, the system verifies that the user has appropriate permissions, storing the verified association in a linking data structure. This preliminary action ensures security is maintained while enabling convenient future access
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for linking video sharing accounts with content delivery accounts. In one aspect, a method includes providing a control in a user interface associated with a campaign management tool for a content delivery system. The control includes a linking tool for linking a content delivery account associated with a user in the content delivery system with one or more video sharing accounts in a video sharing environment.