Live Video Broadcast Highlighting and Audience Notification System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional live video broadcasting services lack user control over audience notifications, suffer from uninteresting content due to unscripted nature, and offer no control over recorded video availability, leading to reduced engagement and viewership.
Innovation Solution
A broadcast management system that allows users to select audience members for notifications, indicate and share highlighted portions of live video, and control the availability of recorded content through an ephemeral content collection with timed visibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If the broadcaster notifies all friends and followers about the live video broadcast, then the audience size increases, but the broadcaster spams friends with unnecessary notifications
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the audience notification process by allowing broadcasters to select specific friends or followers to receive notifications, rather than notifying all contacts. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by enabling targeted notifications that increase audience size among interested parties while avoiding spamming unrelated friends.
2Duration of action of moving object
If the live video broadcast continues for a long duration, then more content is shared, but viewers lose interest due to uninteresting portions
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and highlights only the interesting portions of the live video broadcast, separating them from the uninteresting content. By presenting these extracted highlights to viewers, the system maintains viewer engagement and reliability without requiring them to endure the entire long-duration broadcast, thus resolving the contradiction between broadcast duration and viewer engagement.
3Duration of action of stationary object
If the recorded video broadcast is made available indefinitely, then the broadcaster has maximum control over content distribution, but viewer interest decreases due to lack of urgency
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic action by making the highlighted video portions available for a predetermined time period and then automatically removing them. This time-limited availability creates urgency and encourages viewers to watch the content while it is still accessible, thereby maintaining viewership engagement while still providing the broadcaster with control over content distribution parameters.
4Reliability
If the broadcaster shares only highlighted portions, then viewer engagement improves, but the broadcaster loses control over full content distribution
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides dynamic content distribution options that adapt to the broadcaster's needs. The broadcaster can choose to share only highlighted portions, share the full recording with highlighted portion indicators, or share both separately. This dynamic flexibility allows the broadcaster to maintain control over content distribution while still benefiting from improved viewer engagement through highlighted portions.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for enabling better control over a live video broadcast. For example, systems and methods described herein enable a broadcaster to indicate one or more highlighted portions of a live video broadcast. Systems and method described herein further provide a video broadcast viewer the ability to scrub through the video broadcast directly to the highlighted portions of the live video broadcast.