Media Playback Ordering Prompts With Timing-Based Food Scheduling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing media presentation systems do not facilitate seamless integration of food ordering based on media content presentation, missing opportunities for timely and relevant food ordering during media consumption.
Innovation Solution
A media presentation system that utilizes media content characteristics and timing to control food ordering processes, including prompt presentation, food option selection, and delivery or pickup scheduling, leveraging metadata and vendor data to optimize the ordering experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If food ordering is integrated with media presentation system, then user convenience is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the food ordering system with the media presentation system by integrating a food ordering module into the media player. This allows the system to detect media content characteristics (genre, mood, intensity) and automatically trigger relevant food ordering prompts, eliminating the need for separate food ordering applications and improving user convenience while managing complexity through functional integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The media presentation system is enhanced with multi-functionality by adding food ordering capabilities to an existing media player. The system can now both play media content and facilitate food ordering based on media characteristics, allowing one device to serve multiple purposes and reducing the need for separate dedicated devices.
2Loss of time
If food ordering prompts are triggered based on media content characteristics, then timing relevance is improved, but detection complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a simplified representation or 'copy' of media content characteristics by extracting key features (genre, mood, intensity) and mapping them to food ordering parameters. This abstraction layer allows the system to detect media characteristics without analyzing every detail of the actual media content, reducing detection complexity while maintaining timing relevance through the mapped relationships between media features and food categories.
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AI summary
A method and system for food-order processing based on timing of media-content presentation. An example method includes a media presentation system detecting an occurrence of a media-presentation event associated with presentation of a media-content item by the media presentation system. Further, the example method includes, responsive to detecting the media-presentation event, (i) the media presentation system presenting a food-ordering prompt that solicits user input to place a food order, (ii) the media presentation system receiving the user input responsive to the presented prompt, and (iii) responsive to the received user input, the media presentation system engaging in network communication to place the food order pursuant to the received user input. And still further, the example method includes the media presentation system using timing of presentation of the media-content item as a basis to schedule a pickup or delivery time for the food order.