Media Playback Instability Analysis With Machine Learning Adaptation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Modern electronic devices experience failures or crashes due to issues within media entities, leading to complex and time-consuming problem-solving processes that affect a significant number of users.

Innovation Solution

An intelligent system using machine learning to analyze error logs, identify problematic media assets or features, and either remove or notify users of potential issues to prevent playback failures.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional manual processes are used to address issues within media entities, then each problem can be individually investigated and fixed, but the process becomes complex and time-consuming, affecting a considerable number of users until fixes are deployed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemedia playback reliabilityVSAvoidtime to resolve issues
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by proactively analyzing media assets before they cause playback failures. Error logs from multiple user devices are collected and analyzed in advance to identify problematic patterns in media content, metadata, or features. Once issues are detected through pattern recognition, the system preemptively removes or modifies the problematic assets before they can affect users, thereby resolving the contradiction between maintaining reliability and reducing response time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If error logs from multiple user devices are collected and analyzed to identify problematic media assets, then playback failures can be prevented, but significant server resources are consumed for data collection, storage, and analysis

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemedia playback stabilityVSAvoidserver resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and focuses only on the most critical error log data needed for pattern recognition, rather than processing all available data. By identifying and isolating key error patterns that indicate problematic media assets, the system reduces the volume of data requiring server storage and computation while maintaining effective detection capabilities. This extraction approach allows the system to maintain high reliability in detecting playback issues while significantly reducing server resource consumption for data management.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Ease of operation

If problematic media assets are identified and removed based on error log analysis, then user experience is enhanced by preventing playback failures, but some media content may be removed even if the issues are minor or device-specific

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser experience smoothnessVSAvoidmedia content availability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by removing or modifying only the specific problematic portions of media assets rather than eliminating entire media content. By precisely identifying the exact metadata fields, features, or data segments causing errors, the system can selectively correct or remove only those localized problematic elements while preserving the rest of the media content. This approach maintains media content availability and versatility while still enhancing user experience by preventing playback failures caused by specific local issues.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20250208943A1System And Method Of Instability Analysis And Feature Adaptation
Publication Date: 2025.06.26 TIVO PLATFORM TECH LLC
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AI summary

Generally disclosed herein is a mechanism to address problems within entities that typically result in failure to playback media content. The solution uses an intelligent system that identifies features or assets causing the problems and takes the corresponding action to work around the features or assets. For example, as failures occur, problematic data may be recorded, such as into a centralized server. The recorded problematic data may be used as training data for a machine learning algorithm that analyzes the recorded problem data and identifies errors in the recorded problematic data causing the failure. The machine learning algorithm may further receive as input current data related to media content to be played and identify current errors in the current data based on the identified errors in the recorded problematic data.