Social Network Overlay for Media Comment Correlation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current media management systems lack the ability to effectively create and manage social networks based on user-generated comments associated with media content, limiting the interaction and connection of users with shared interests.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that present an overlay on media content to collect and analyze user-generated comments, detecting correlations among them to establish adaptive social networks between users with similar interests, allowing for the creation of virtual connections and community management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If media management systems collect and analyze user-generated comments to create social networks, then user engagement and community building are enhanced, but system complexity and computational requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesocial network creation capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an overlay interface as an intermediary between media content and user interaction. This overlay captures user comments and reactions without requiring users to leave the media playback environment, thereby enabling social network creation while maintaining system simplicity. The overlay acts as a mediator that collects user-generated content and transmits it to the server for social network analysis.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where user comments and reactions to media content are collected, analyzed, and used to dynamically create and update social networks. The feedback loop allows the system to continuously adapt social network structures based on real-time user interactions, enhancing adaptability while managing complexity through automated analysis algorithms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If the system analyzes user-generated comments to detect correlations and establish social networks, then user connections with shared interests are improved, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecorrelation detection accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by collecting and storing user comments and media consumption data as users interact with content. This data is pre-processed and organized in advance, allowing for faster correlation detection when creating social networks. By preparing data structures beforehand, the system reduces processing time while maintaining accurate correlation analysis.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements partial action by analyzing only the most relevant features of user comments and interactions rather than processing every detail. The system focuses on key correlation indicators such as shared media consumption patterns and similar comment themes, achieving sufficient measurement precision without the computational overhead of complete data analysis.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Adaptability or versatility

If the system dynamically manages network memberships based on changing interests, then social network adaptability is improved, but system operational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenetwork adaptabilityVSAvoidoperational simplicity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service by automatically detecting changes in user interests based on ongoing media consumption and comment analysis. Social network memberships are dynamically adjusted without manual intervention - users are automatically added to or removed from networks based on their evolving preferences. This maintains high network adaptability while keeping operational complexity low through automated decision-making algorithms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies dynamics by making social network memberships fluid and adaptable rather than static. User profiles and network associations continuously evolve based on real-time analysis of media consumption patterns and user-generated comments. This dynamic approach allows the system to adapt to changing interests automatically, balancing adaptability with operational simplicity through continuous automated adjustment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS8224756B2Apparatus and method for managing a social network

Publication Date: 2012.07.17 AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I L P

AI summary

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to collect one or more user-generated comments from each of a plurality of computing devices, detect a correlation in the one or more user-generated comments collected from the plurality of computing devices, and establish a social network between the plurality of computing devices according to the detected correlation. The one or more user-generated comments can be temporally associated with media content presented at the plurality of computing devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.