Personalized Media Content Summaries via Network Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Many media content items available via the internet lack associated summaries, making it difficult for viewers to determine whether to watch them, and existing solutions do not effectively provide personalized summaries for user-preferred content.

Innovation Solution

A system that analyzes media content based on user profiles to generate dynamically personalized summaries, selecting representative frames or portions that align with user preferences, even for content without pre-stored summaries, thereby providing a concise overview of interest.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If media content items are made available without pre-stored summaries, then the quantity and variety of available content increases, but viewers cannot quickly determine whether to watch the content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveavailability of media contentVSAvoidtime to determine content worthiness
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of media content items to generate summaries before users request them. The server device analyzes content features, user preferences, and generates personalized summaries in advance, so when a user requests a summary, it is quickly provided without requiring the user to spend time evaluating entire content items.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If personalized summaries are generated for each user, then user satisfaction increases, but the complexity of the system increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser satisfactionVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The server device performs multiple functions: it stores user profiles, analyzes media content features, generates personalized summaries, and delivers them to user devices. This multi-functional approach consolidates complexity into a single server system rather than requiring complex processing at each user device, simplifying the overall system architecture while still providing personalized summaries.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically generates personalized summaries by analyzing user profiles and content features without requiring manual user input or configuration. The server autonomously matches content characteristics with user preferences and generates appropriate summaries, reducing the need for complex user-side processing or manual setup.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If complete media content items are transmitted to users, then content quality is maintained, but bandwidth usage increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent qualityVSAvoidbandwidth usage
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and transmits only the essential summary information from complete media content items. Instead of transmitting entire videos or audio files, the server generates and sends condensed summaries that capture key content features and user-relevant information, dramatically reducing bandwidth usage while maintaining the ability to convey content worthiness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS11388561B2Providing a summary of media content to a communication device
Publication Date: 2022.07.12 AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I L P
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AI summary

A wireless communication device includes a processor, a display device coupled to the processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory includes instructions executable by the processor to perform operations. The operations include receiving a user input to play a media content item. The operations include sending a request for a summary of the media content item to a network device in response to the user input in lieu of sending a particular request for the media content item. The operations also include, in response to the reply including media content, sending the media content to the display device for display.