Media Preview Focus Area Reduces Bandwidth Waste
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inefficiency when searching for media content items as they often need to repeatedly select and reselect search results without sufficient information, leading to unnecessary content downloads and increased computing resources and network bandwidth usage.
Innovation Solution
A client device presents a user interface with a scrollable search result area and a focus area to provide previews of media content items based on user gestures, allowing users to verify their interest in specific content without leaving the search results interface, reducing the need for repeated selections and optimizing resource usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a user selects a media content item from search results to view it, then the user can determine whether the content is what they are looking for, but the user may need to repeatedly select and reselect items leading to unnecessary content downloads and increased computing resources and network bandwidth usage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by displaying a preview of the media content item in the focus area before the user fully selects or downloads the content. This allows users to view a preview version to determine if the content matches their search intent, thereby avoiding unnecessary full content downloads and reducing computing and network resources wasted on unwanted content
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying by creating and displaying a preview copy of the media content item in the focus area alongside the search results. This preview copy allows users to evaluate the content without obtaining the full original content, reducing network bandwidth and computing resource consumption while still providing sufficient information for content evaluation
2Measurement precision
If a user repeatedly selects and reselects search results to find the desired content, then the user can eventually find the correct media content item, but the process becomes inefficient and increases network bandwidth usage
Solution Approach 1:
By displaying previews in the focus area as users scroll through search results, the system performs preliminary content evaluation for the user. This eliminates the need for repeated full content loads and allows users to quickly identify desired content, improving search efficiency while maintaining accurate content determination
Solution Approach 2:
The patent maintains continuous useful action by keeping the preview displayed in the focus area as the user scrolls through search results. This continuous preview display allows uninterrupted content evaluation across multiple search result items, improving search productivity without sacrificing the user's ability to accurately determine content interest
3Loss of information
If the user interface presents only a list of search results without previews, then the interface remains simple, but the user lacks sufficient information to determine whether a media content item is of interest
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the user interface into two distinct areas: a scrollable search result area displaying the list of search results, and a focus area displaying previews of selected search result items. This segmentation allows the interface to provide rich information about media content items through previews while maintaining a simple, familiar list-based search result structure
Solution Approach 2:
The focus area acts as an intermediary between the search result list and the full content view. It provides a middle ground that displays preview information about media content items without requiring the user to navigate away from the search results or commit to downloading the full content, thus providing sufficient information while keeping the interface relatively simple
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AI summary
A client device may receive a plurality of search result items. Each search result item may correspond to a media content item. The client device may present a user interface, including a scrollable search result area presenting a subset of the plurality of search result items, and a focus area presenting a preview of a media content item corresponding to one of the plurality of search result items. The client device may receive one or more user gestures in the scrollable search result area and in response, may determine whether the one or more user gestures indicate a user interest in a second media content item. If so, the client device may present a preview of the second media content item corresponding to the second search result item.