Media Player Travel Indicator Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Viewers must separately access travel companies to find travel options related to media content being streamed, lacking a user-friendly integration with the media viewing experience.
Innovation Solution
A system that receives a media content event selection, communicates a travel indicator during media streaming, and presents travel information associated with the content, generated from electronic program guide or audio analysis, allowing users to select and save travel options seamlessly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If viewers separately access travel companies to find travel options, then they can obtain travel information, but the user experience is degraded due to needing to leave the media viewing environment
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the media viewing environment with travel information delivery by integrating travel indicators and travel information presentation directly into the media player interface. This merging eliminates the need for users to separately access travel company websites, allowing them to obtain travel information while remaining in the media viewing environment, thus improving ease of operation and reducing time loss.
2Ease of operation
If travel information is provided during media streaming, then user experience is enhanced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The media player is designed with multi-functionality, serving both as a media playback device and as a travel information delivery system. By making the media player universal, the patent avoids adding separate dedicated devices or complex external systems, thereby enhancing user experience while controlling system complexity through consolidation of functions into a single device.
3Measurement precision
If travel information is automatically generated from EPG or audio analysis, then information accuracy is improved, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis of media content during the media playback process itself, rather than requiring separate post-processing steps. By analyzing EPG data and audio content in real-time or near real-time during media streaming, the system generates travel information with high accuracy while minimizing additional processing time that would be required if analysis were performed separately after media playback.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for providing travel information associated with a presently viewed media content event. An exemplary method receives a selection for a media content event, receives a media content stream corresponding to the selected media content event, communicates the selected media content event to a media presentation device, communicates to the media presentation device a travel indicator during communication of the media content event, receives a user selection associated with the travel indicator, and presents travel information to the user based on the received user selection. The travel information is based on an analysis of content of the EPG information. The media content event is paused after receiving the user selection of the travel indicator. The travel information associated with the media content event is saved after receiving the user selection of the travel indicator.