Media Presentation System for Streaming Navigation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional systems fail to distribute and share user-generated streaming media in an intuitive and efficient manner, leading to poor quality and navigation issues for viewing users, who often encounter shaky videos, long pauses, and difficulty in finding relevant content, with limited control over their viewing experience.

Innovation Solution

The system intelligently shares and organizes streaming media by determining user-specific distribution audiences based on media characteristics, applies production edits to enhance quality, and allows navigation within live streams, enabling users to easily switch between multiple related media streams and access notable moments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If conventional systems stream multiple user-generated media streams separately, then each stream is delivered independently, but viewing users face difficulty navigating and locating related media streams of the same event

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenavigation easeVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple separate media streams into a unified media presentation that groups related streams together. The system merges streams from the same event into a single navigable interface, allowing users to access multiple perspectives without manually searching through separate streams. This resolves the navigation difficulty while maintaining the ability to deliver multiple streams.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a media presentation as an intermediary layer between the multiple media streams and the viewing user. This mediator organizes and presents streams in a coordinated manner, providing a unified interface that simplifies navigation while managing the complexity of multiple simultaneous streams in the background.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If conventional systems provide user-generated media streams without quality differentiation, then all streams are treated equally, but viewing users must watch poor quality streams with shaky video and long pauses

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemedia qualityVSAvoidstream evaluation complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the parameters used to select and present media streams by evaluating multiple quality metrics including video stability, pause frequency, and overall stream quality. The system dynamically adjusts which streams are featured based on these parameters, ensuring high-quality content is prioritized while maintaining objective quality standards through automated evaluation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Loss of time

If conventional systems allow viewing users to join live streams after the event has begun, then users can access ongoing content, but users cannot catch up on missed content and lose context of the complete event

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent access timeVSAvoidviewing control flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent prepares and stores multiple media streams and their associated content in advance before the viewing user joins. By having all streams pre-recorded and organized in the system, the user can later access and view content from any point in time, including missed portions of the event, without requiring real-time stream synchronization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements dynamic time navigation capabilities that allow viewing users to freely move between different time points in the media presentation. Users can jump to specific moments, replay segments, or catch up on missed content by accessing streams from various time points, making the system adaptable to different viewing needs and timing scenarios.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

4Adaptability or versatility

If conventional systems require viewing users to perform numerous navigational steps to switch between media streams, then users can access different streams, but users lose live content while navigating

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestream switching capabilityVSAvoidnavigation time

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the media presentation into distinct, easily accessible components that can be quickly switched between. By organizing related media streams into segmented units within a unified presentation, users can navigate between different stream perspectives through simple selections rather than extensive navigation, reducing the time lost during transitions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS11563997B2Streaming media presentation system

Publication Date: 2023.01.24 META PLATFORMS INC

AI summary

One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for providing media presentations to users of a media presentation system. A media presentation generally includes a one or more media streams provided by one or more capturing users of the media presentation system. In one or more embodiments, a user of the media presentation system may share a media presentation with a viewing user. The media presentation system can provide a number of features to produce a media stream within a media presentation.