Locale-Aware Virtual Content Selection for Audience Compliance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing online virtual experience platforms face challenges in ensuring that virtual content is suitable for diverse target audiences across different regions and demographics due to varying regulatory rules and cultural preferences, making it difficult to provide localized content effectively.

Innovation Solution

A network environment and method that automatically analyzes and rates virtual experience content, generates alternative content as needed, and provides suitable content based on locale-specific regulations and user preferences, using an API for self-rating and storage of alternate content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If developers manually create localized content versions for different regions and age groups, then content suitability for specific audiences is improved, but the time and resources required to produce and manage multiple content versions increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent suitabilityVSAvoidtime for content production
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The content is segmented into base content and alternative content portions. The base content is provided once, and alternative content portions are selectively provided based on user demographics and regional regulations. This segmentation allows a single content production effort to serve multiple audiences without requiring separate full content versions for each region and age group.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Alternative content portions are pre-created and stored in advance, allowing the system to quickly switch between content versions based on user demographics and regional regulations without requiring real-time manual content generation. This preliminary preparation reduces the time needed for content production and deployment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If developers manually vet and manage content for different regions and age groups, then content compliance with local regulations is improved, but the complexity of managing multiple content versions increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent complianceVSAvoidcontent management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically determines which content version to provide based on user demographic information and regional regulations without requiring manual intervention. The automated content selection process reduces the complexity of managing multiple content versions by eliminating the need for manual vetting and switching operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

A content selection system acts as an intermediary between the content library and the user. This intermediary automatically matches users with appropriate content versions based on their demographics and regional regulations, simplifying the management complexity by centralizing the selection logic in a systematic manner.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Speed

If content is provided without automatic filtering based on user demographics, then content delivery speed is improved, but the risk of providing inappropriate content to restricted audiences increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent delivery speedVSAvoidinappropriate content risk
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

User demographic information is collected and content is pre-categorized with alternative portions in advance. When a user accesses content, the system quickly retrieves the appropriate version based on pre-stored demographic data and regional regulations, enabling fast delivery without manual filtering while maintaining content appropriateness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

An automated filtering system acts as an intermediary between the content delivery mechanism and the content itself. This intermediary rapidly evaluates user demographics and regional regulations to determine the appropriate content version, enabling high-speed delivery while preventing inappropriate content from reaching restricted audiences.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20250281841A1Automatic presentation of suitable content
Publication Date: 2025.09.11 ROBLOX CORP
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AI summary

Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to automatically present suitable content for a particular audience. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method receiving virtual experience content associated with a first virtual experience associated with a first target audience and including content that is restricted as not viewable by a second target audience, receiving at least one content alternative, generating a first rating for the received virtual experience content and a second rating for the at least one content alternative, and automatically providing only one of the received virtual experience content or the at least one content alternative to user devices based on the first rating and the second rating.