Media Configuration System for Messaging Bandwidth Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of messaging systems face challenges in seamlessly integrating and sharing relevant media content within conversations, as existing systems lack efficient methods to prioritize and deliver media items based on user preferences and conversation context, leading to interruptions and suboptimal engagement.
Innovation Solution
A media configuration system that receives search term information from a client device, transmits it to multiple media servers, selects high-priority media items based on priority weights, and configures the client device with these items, utilizing a media support server to manage and optimize media content delivery, reducing bandwidth usage and enhancing relevance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If media items are transmitted to users in messaging systems, then user engagement and conversation enrichment are improved, but bandwidth consumption and system resource usage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and transmits only the most relevant media items based on priority weights derived from messaging information, rather than transmitting all available media content. This selective extraction reduces bandwidth consumption while maintaining user engagement by delivering only high-value content.
Solution Approach 2:
The system assigns different priority weights to different media items based on their relevance to specific messaging contexts, users, and conversations. This local quality differentiation ensures that bandwidth is allocated efficiently by prioritizing transmission of high-relevance media while reducing or eliminating low-relevance content.
2Measurement precision
If multiple media servers are queried for media items, then media selection quality and relevance are improved, but system complexity and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the media selection process into distinct functional components: a media server search component that queries multiple media servers, a media item evaluation component that assigns priority weights, and a client support component that delivers results. This segmentation allows the system to leverage multiple servers for improved media quality while managing complexity through modular architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a media support server as an intermediary between client devices and multiple media servers. This mediator coordinates queries across multiple servers, aggregates results, and applies priority weighting logic, thereby improving media selection quality while shielding clients from the complexity of multi-server coordination.
3Adaptability or versatility
If priority weights are assigned to media items based on messaging information, then media relevance and user experience are improved, but processing requirements and computational load increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary evaluation of media items by assigning priority weights based on messaging information before transmission. This preliminary action filters and ranks media content in advance, allowing the system to adapt to user preferences and conversation context while reducing downstream processing requirements by eliminating the need for real-time evaluation during media delivery.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques to configure media packages are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a client support component operative to receive search term information from a client device at a server device; and configure the client device with a selected one or more high-priority media items; a media server search component operative to transmit the search term information to a plurality of media servers; receive a plurality of media items from the plurality of media servers in response to the transmitting of the search term information to the plurality of media servers; and select the one or more high-priority media items from the plurality of media items based on priority weights; and a media item evaluation component operative to assign the priority weights to each of the plurality of media items. Other embodiments are described and claimed.