Media Guidance Application Power Conservation via Periodic Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Typical television systems either persistently monitor storage space, leading to poor user experiences due to unnecessary error messages or power consumption, or fail to monitor adequately, resulting in missed opportunities for enriched media content delivery.
Innovation Solution
A media guidance application that dynamically monitors storage space and user interactions to determine appropriate times for notifications, entering deletion or enhanced modes based on thresholds and user behavior, optimizing power usage and user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the system persistently monitors storage space at all times, then storage space management is reliable, but power consumption increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic monitoring of storage space instead of continuous monitoring. The media guidance application checks storage space at scheduled intervals or at specific trigger points (such as when recording operations are initiated), thereby maintaining adequate storage management while significantly reducing the power consumption associated with constant monitoring activities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts its monitoring behavior based on current operational context. The monitoring frequency and intensity are modified according to system state, user activity patterns, and storage utilization levels, allowing the system to be more aggressive when storage is critically low and more passive when storage is abundant, thus optimizing the balance between reliability and power consumption.
2Reliability
If the system performs all monitoring operations at all times, then monitoring reliability is improved, but user experience deteriorates due to inopportune error messages
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms that analyze user behavior patterns and contextual information before delivering notifications. By monitoring when users typically interact with the system, what types of content they prefer, and their current activity state, the system can time its storage warnings to coincide with moments when users are most likely to respond appropriately, such as during natural pauses in viewing or when users are actively managing their content library.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary analysis of storage trends and user behavior patterns in advance, allowing it to predict optimal moments for notifications. Rather than simply reacting to storage thresholds being crossed, the system anticipates user needs and schedules notifications proactively at times that minimize disruption to the viewing experience while ensuring users are informed of storage issues before they become critical.
3Use of energy by moving object
If the system never monitors storage space, then power consumption is reduced, but error messages are only generated when users try to record, creating poor user experience
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic monitoring of storage space instead of continuous monitoring. The media guidance application checks storage space at scheduled intervals or at specific trigger points (such as when recording operations are initiated), thereby maintaining adequate storage management while significantly reducing the power consumption associated with constant monitoring activities.
4Reliability
If the system performs persistent monitoring for enriched media content opportunities, then content delivery quality is improved, but power demand increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic monitoring of storage space instead of continuous monitoring. The media guidance application checks storage space at scheduled intervals or at specific trigger points (such as when recording operations are initiated), thereby maintaining adequate storage management while significantly reducing the power consumption associated with constant monitoring activities.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are provided herein for performing user device power conservation. To this end, the systems and methods operate a user device in a normal operation mode to provide media content to the user device. While operating in the normal operation mode, Systems and methods monitor the provided media content to determine that the provided media content includes an event that is of interest to the user. In response to determining that the provided media content includes an event of interest to the user, systems and methods enter an enhanced mode. In the enhanced mode, systems and methods determine that an enriched media content is relevant to the provided media content. In response to determining that the enriched media content is relevant to the provided media, systems and methods provide the enriched media content to the user device.