Media Embed Code Mechanism for Seamless Content Enhancement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users creating multimedia content on computer networks face difficulties in enhancing their content with additional media objects without managing lower-level protocols or learning new programming languages, and they often lack control over access privileges and embedding media, especially in blog and email applications.
Innovation Solution
A media enhancement mechanism that provides embed codes to composers, allowing them to enhance data objects with additional media objects, which are automatically pushed to consumers' attention, enabling seamless and immediate consumption through an enhancement service-provider that modifies data object descriptions with additional computer code and metadata.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If composers manually manage lower-level protocols and programming languages to embed media objects, then control over media embedding is achieved, but complexity of operation increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary service that acts as a mediator between composers and the complex protocol layer. This service automatically handles protocol management, authentication, and media object embedding, allowing composers to simply specify desired media enhancements without dealing with underlying complexity. The intermediary translates high-level composer intent into low-level protocol operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements self-service mechanisms where the enhancement service automatically performs media object selection, embedding, and delivery without requiring composer intervention in protocol management. The service autonomously handles authentication, retrieves appropriate media objects, and integrates them into data objects, freeing composers from complex operational tasks.
2Adaptability or versatility
If composers want to provide enhanced media content to all users, then versatility of content delivery is improved, but control over access privileges becomes difficult to manage
Solution Approach 1:
The enhancement service acts as an intermediary that manages access privilege control on behalf of composers. It automatically handles authentication and authorization when delivering enhanced media content to different user types (subscribers vs. non-subscribers), allowing composers to define versatile delivery options without manually managing complex access control protocols for each user.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides universal access privilege management that handles multiple user types and delivery scenarios through a unified mechanism. The enhancement service can simultaneously support free access for some media objects, restricted access for premium content, and conditional delivery based on user characteristics, all through a single automated system that adapts to different privilege requirements.
3Productivity
If additional media objects are automatically pushed to consumers, then immediate consumption opportunities increase, but information overload may occur
Solution Approach 1:
The enhancement service applies local quality by selectively pushing different types of media enhancements to different consumers based on their characteristics, preferences, and context. Rather than uniformly pushing all available media objects to all consumers, the system tailors the enhancement delivery to match individual consumer needs and capabilities, ensuring information quality while maintaining productivity.
Data Source
AI summary
A method to provide additional media objects for data objects containing one or more existing media objects is described. The existing media object is analyzed to determine additional related media available on the network, and the data object description is augmented with metadata to identify the additional media in an enhanced data object description. When the enhanced data object is rendered, the metadata facilitates incorporation of additional media objects in the displayed page.