Media Asset Filtering Server for Social Services

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users receive excessive or unwanted media assets from multiple social networking and photo sharing services, leading to duplicate copies and potential overload, as existing systems lack effective filtering based on user preferences for specific senders, types, and services.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that utilize a filtering server to determine whether a media asset should be communicated to a user by checking if it is from a specified party, of a particular type, and from a specific social publishing service, using user preference data stored in a profile server, to prevent unnecessary communication and manage media asset delivery.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If media assets are communicated from multiple social publishing services to users, then users receive comprehensive content from all connected services, but users experience overload and receive duplicate copies of the same media asset

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvequantity of media assets receivedVSAvoiduser overload and duplicate content

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary filtering by checking user preferences before communicating media assets. The filtering server evaluates whether a user wants to receive media from a specific social publishing service, sender, or media type in advance, preventing unwanted duplicates before they reach the user.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

A filtering server acts as an intermediary between social publishing services and users. This mediator component receives media assets from multiple services, consults user preference data, and selectively forwards only desired content to users, eliminating duplicates and unwanted media.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If users receive all media assets from all connected social services, then no content is missed, but users cannot selectively control which media assets they receive

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser control over media receptionVSAvoidsimplicity of media reception

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The filtering criteria are segmented into multiple independent dimensions: social publishing service identity, sender identity, and media type. Users can configure preferences for each dimension separately, allowing fine-grained control over which media assets they receive from which services and senders.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

User preferences are dynamically applied to each incoming media asset in real-time. The filtering server continuously evaluates media assets against stored user preferences, allowing users to adapt their reception criteria without manual intervention for each asset.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS9800534B2Communication of media assets from social publication services

Publication Date: 2017.10.24 INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS SAS

AI summary

The present disclosure is directed towards having media assets that come from different social publication services be communicated to a user based on different conditions. Specifically, a determination is made from metadata associated with a media asset whether the media asset is of a particular type (315), is published from a specified party (320), and whether the media asset comes from an approved social publication service (310). If the determination is affirmative (325), the media asset is communicated to a user, otherwise the communication is prevented (325).