Live-Event Item Sequencing with Automatic Run Next Transitions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing live event systems on mobile computing devices face delays and cumbersome navigation when sequencing multiple items for sale, particularly for hosts with large inventories, leading to interruptions in the live event experience for guests.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a 'Run Next' feature that allows hosts to automatically transition to the next item in the queue upon conclusion of the current offering, reducing the need for manual navigation through inventory and enabling seamless sequencing of items.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If hosts manually navigate through their personal item inventory to select the next item for sale, then they can offer multiple items in the live event, but the process becomes cumbersome and causes delays especially for hosts with large inventories
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-loads the next item information and prepares the transition before the current item sale concludes. The host interface is updated with the next item details in advance, so when the transition is needed, the information is already ready and requires minimal host interaction to display.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically manages the item sequencing process by detecting when the current item offering concludes and autonomously retrieving and displaying the next item information from the host's inventory, reducing the need for manual navigation and selection by the host.
2Productivity
If hosts with large inventories manually select each next item, then they can maintain control over item selection, but the operation becomes increasingly complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts the complex inventory navigation and item selection logic from the host's manual操作流程 and relocates it to the system's automated processes. The host interface is simplified to show only essential controls, while the system handles the complex tasks of retrieving item details, validating selections, and managing the offering sequence.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-organizes the host's inventory data and pre-loads next item information, so when a transition is needed, the complex processing has already been prepared. This eliminates the need for real-time complex operations during the live event, improving productivity while maintaining interface simplicity.
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AI summary
A mobile software application implementing “live events,” via which a host of the event may sequentially offer one, two, three, four or more items to a plurality of guests in the event (e.g., via auction, via direct purchase, or via a giveaway). The host's device may obtain and transmit a real-time video stream, which is in turn provided to each guest's device in conjunction with real-time information about the item(s) being offered. Particular techniques further assist the host in sequencing two or more items to be offered in the same live event, thereby avoiding delays and cumbersome user interface interactions that might otherwise be involved in initiating the offering of a next item upon concluding an offering of a previous item.