Media Playback Comment Filtering for Friend-Only Viewing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Social networking systems face challenges in presenting media content items that are most interesting or relevant to a user while avoiding emotionally distressing comments from unknown individuals and ensuring timely responses from friends, which can negatively impact user experience.
Innovation Solution
The system generates media content playback with comments only from friends, allowing private messaging with comment creators, and implements a cool-down period for notifications, while displaying comments at respective temporal positions during playback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the system presents all comments from all users on media content items, then the user can see complete discussion threads, but the user may experience emotional distress from comments by unknown individuals and the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and displays only comments from friends (connected users) while excluding comments from unknown individuals. This selective extraction resolves the contradiction by maintaining comment visibility for relevant users while eliminating potential emotional distress from unrelated users.
Solution Approach 2:
The comment feed is segmented into friend-specific sections during media playback, with each friend's comments displayed in separate chronological segments. This segmentation allows the system to maintain complete information from friends while managing the complexity of organizing multiple comment streams.
2Productivity
If the system displays all comments from friends during media playback, then the user engagement increases, but the device complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic action by displaying comments at specific temporal positions during media playback rather than continuously. Comments are shown at predetermined intervals or trigger points, which maintains user engagement while reducing the processing complexity of managing continuous comment streams.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies partial action by selecting and displaying only certain comments from friends based on relevance and timing, rather than showing all comments. This selective approach maintains high user engagement with meaningful content while reducing the computational complexity of processing and displaying every comment.
3Loss of time
If the system provides immediate notifications for all comments, then the user responds timely, but the notification frequency becomes excessive and disturbs the user
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system uses periodic action by implementing a cool-down period that limits the frequency of notifications. Instead of notifying immediately for every comment, the system provides notifications at controlled intervals, ensuring timely awareness while preventing excessive disturbance from frequent alerts.
4Object-affected harmful factors
If the system filters comments to show only from friends, then the emotional distress is reduced, but the loss of information from other users increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making the comment filtering specific to the user's context - showing comments from friends during personal media playback while maintaining the option to see broader content in other interfaces. This localized approach reduces emotional distress in personal viewing while preserving access to broader information when needed.
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AI summary
A method and a system include receiving a request from a client device to view a media content item, determining at least one comment associated with a respective user profile from a set of connected profiles, generating a summary comments selectable item based at least in part on the respective user profile, causing a display of playback of the media content item and the summary comments selectable item in response to the request to view the media content item, and during the playback of the media content item at the particular time, causing a display of at least one comment.