Automated Media Content Generation Platform

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Solution Overview

Problem

Media publishers face challenges in efficiently generating and publishing content across various platforms due to differing technical requirements, formats, and schedules, making it impractical to maintain extensive teams for each platform.

Innovation Solution

A media content publishing platform that automatically generates content based on source data from existing publications, using a system that extracts and processes data from RSS or Atom feeds, and populates templates with specified content, allowing for efficient creation and distribution of media content items across multiple platforms.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If publishers manually create and publish content for each platform, then content quality and platform-specific optimization are improved, but labor costs and team size increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent creation efficiencyVSAvoidteam structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates platform-specific content by copying and adapting source content data through automated template processing. Instead of manually creating content for each platform, the system generates multiple platform versions from a single source, eliminating the need for extensive publishing teams while maintaining platform-specific optimization

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The publishing system performs automated content generation, formatting, and distribution across multiple platforms without human intervention. The system self-manages the entire publishing workflow from source data ingestion to multi-platform distribution, replacing manual team operations with autonomous automation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If publishers maintain extensive teams for each platform, then platform-specific content requirements are met, but operational costs and management complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveplatform adaptation capabilityVSAvoidcost efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a universal publishing platform that handles multiple platforms through a single integrated system. The core engine can adapt to different platform requirements (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) while maintaining a unified content generation process, providing multi-platform versatility without requiring separate teams for each platform

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system adapts to different platform requirements by dynamically changing content parameters such as dimensions, formats, and scheduling through configurable templates. This allows a single team to serve multiple platforms by adjusting parameters rather than maintaining separate specialized teams, improving cost efficiency while maintaining adaptability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Loss of time

If content is updated frequently across multiple platforms, then content freshness and user engagement are improved, but the time and resources required for manual updates increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent update timeVSAvoidupdate frequency
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables continuous automated content generation and distribution across multiple platforms. Once source content is ingested, the system continuously generates and publishes platform-specific versions without interruption, maintaining frequent updates across all platforms simultaneously without requiring repeated manual intervention for each update cycle

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary content generation and formatting in advance, creating a ready-to-publish content pipeline. By pre-processing source content into multiple platform formats and scheduling updates ahead of time, the system enables frequent content refreshes across platforms without requiring last-minute manual preparation, reducing update time while maintaining high frequency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11461546B2Media content item generation for a content sharing platform
Publication Date: 2022.10.04 SNAP INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods are provided for receiving location information for source data associated with a publisher identifier and determining a set of selectors associated with the publisher identifier, each selector comprising specified content to extract from the source data and one or more rules for extracting the specified content. The systems and method further provided for extracting from the source data, specified content for each selector of at least a subset of the set of selectors based on the one or more rules specified in each selector of the at least subset of the set of selectors, determining a first template to use to generate the media content item, the first template comprising regions corresponding to one or more selectors, populating each region of the first template using specified content for the corresponding selector and generating the media content item from the populated first template.