Audience-Influenced Livestreaming System with Real-Time Feedback Tokens

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Solution Overview

Problem

Livestreaming technologies often fail to replicate the dynamic interaction between performers and audiences, leading to a diminished experience for both performers and viewers, as remote audiences lack the energy and engagement that in-person audiences provide.

Innovation Solution

Implementing an audience-influenced livestreaming system that uses real-time audience feedback, integrated through gamified elements and ultra-low latency 5G networking, to influence the content being streamed, allowing remote viewers to actively participate and impact the performance through feedback tokens, which are displayed in real-time to both the audience and performers.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Area of stationary object

If livestreaming is used to broadcast content to distributed audiences, then audience reach is improved, but audience engagement and performer motivation deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaudience reachVSAvoidaudience engagement

Core Design Contradiction:

Area of stationary objectVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements real-time feedback loops where audience feedback tokens are immediately processed and displayed to performers, creating a continuous interaction cycle. This allows performers to sense audience engagement instantly, replicating the dynamic of in-person performances while maintaining remote accessibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces feedback tokens as an intermediary element that mediates between the remote audience and performers. These tokens serve as a tangible representation of audience engagement, allowing performers to perceive audience presence and energy without physical proximity, thus resolving the contradiction between remote reach and engagement quality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If real-time audience feedback is implemented, then audience interaction is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaudience interactionVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs automated processing of feedback tokens through artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms that automatically analyze, interpret, and respond to audience feedback in real-time. This self-service approach handles the complexity of real-time interaction processing without requiring manual intervention, thereby maintaining simplicity in user interaction while managing system complexity through automation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms complex audience feedback data into simplified parameter representations through feedback tokens. By converting diverse audience responses into standardized, processable parameters, the system manages complexity while maintaining rich interaction capabilities, allowing real-time processing without overwhelming system complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of operation

If feedback tokens are processed in real-time, then audience connection is improved, but processing time requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaudience connectionVSAvoidprocessing time

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-processes and categorizes feedback token templates before they are needed during the livestream. By preparing processing frameworks, analysis algorithms, and response templates in advance, the system minimizes real-time processing requirements, enabling rapid audience connection maintenance without excessive processing time demands during the actual broadcast.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical or manual feedback processing systems with AI-driven automated processing. This substitution enables real-time analysis and response generation without the time constraints of manual processing, maintaining strong audience connection while significantly reducing the time loss associated with processing feedback tokens at scale.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS12120398B1Methods and systems for livestreaming audience-influenced content

Publication Date: 2024.10.15 VERIZON PATENT & LICENSING INC

AI summary

An illustrative audience-influenced livestreaming system may provide, to an audience, livestream content depicting a live event and a feedback forum associated with the livestream content and by way of which feedback is submitted by the audience during the live event. The audience-influenced livestreaming system may also identify and track instances of a predesignated feedback token within the feedback submitted by the audience, and may generate a graphical representation of the instances of the predesignated feedback token. The audience-influenced livestreaming system may generate the livestream content by integrating video content depicting the live event with the graphical representation of the instances of the predesignated feedback token. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.