Media Collection Navigation with Opt-Out Interstitial Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for presenting news and content collections are time-consuming and delay-prone due to professional filtering, and navigating through media collections can be cumbersome and inefficient.
Innovation Solution
Implementing an opt-out interstitial feature that allows users to skip auto-advance to next media collections, along with automated content collection generation and navigation using a communication system that curates and filters content based on user connections, location, and system trends.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If professional filtering and curation of content collections is implemented, then content quality and relevance are improved, but navigation time and user control are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables users to take control of their own content navigation experience by allowing them to opt-out of auto-advance and choose whether to view each media collection. This self-service approach lets users manage their own information consumption pace while the system provides curated content, resolving the contradiction between quality curation and user control.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of forcing users to view all curated content in sequence (traditional auto-advance), the system inverts the control by allowing users to skip content they don't want to view. The default behavior changes from mandatory progression to optional progression, giving users agency over their navigation through professionally curated content.
2Productivity
If automated content collection generation is implemented, then productivity and content delivery speed are improved, but device complexity and system requirements are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary opt-out interstitial component that mediates between the automated content delivery system and the user. This simple intermediary layer allows the complex automated generation and delivery system to function while providing a straightforward user control mechanism, reducing the perceived complexity for users.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the content delivery process into discrete media collections that can be independently viewed or skipped. Each collection is a self-contained unit delivered through the automated system, allowing high productivity in content generation while maintaining simple, manageable units that reduce overall system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments for communicating and displaying collections of image and video clip content with an opt-out interstitial are described. In one example embodiment, a device receives interface information about a group of content collections from a server computer system. When a user inputs a selection of a first content collection, the device displays images and video clips in a sequence defined by the content collection. Each piece of content is displayed for less than a threshold display time. When the device finishes playing the first content collection, the device presents an opt-out interstitial. Additional content collections generated from content submitted by other client devices can be received from the server computer system, and are presented based on a response input, or a lack of response input, to the opt-out interstitial. Some embodiments include content collections generated by the server computer system, as well as advertising elements presented between content collections.