Media Query Exchange System Using Community Annotations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in quickly and accurately identifying information about media content, such as actors or music, during television programs, as existing resources often require significant time and effort to verify accuracy.
Innovation Solution
A method allowing users to submit queries about media services through an interface, where other users can provide annotations and metadata, optionally utilizing computer enhancements for keyword extraction and search engine queries to improve response accuracy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users utilize existing information resources such as program guides, encyclopedia sites, or internet databases to identify media content information, then they can obtain information about actors, music, or other media elements, but they must spend a large amount of time determining whether the information is accurate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where multiple users can submit information about media content elements (actors, music, etc.) and other users can verify this information. The system collects feedback from multiple sources and uses it to validate and confirm the accuracy of media content information, thereby reducing the time individual users need to spend verifying accuracy while maintaining high information accuracy through community validation
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables users to self-verify information accuracy by allowing them to check against community-submitted data and cross-references. Users can independently confirm information without requiring extensive manual verification, as the system provides pre-validated data from multiple user contributions that they can rely upon
2Loss of information
If users manually search through program guides or wait for credits to identify media content information, then they can potentially find the information, but the process requires several minutes if not hours of time investment
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by having multiple users pre-submit information about media content elements before a querying user needs the information. The system maintains a database of pre-collected data from various user contributions, allowing any user to quickly access already-processed information without having to manually search through program guides or wait for credits to roll
Solution Approach 2:
The system serves multiple functions simultaneously: it collects information from various sources (program guides, user observations, internet resources), validates this information through multiple user contributions, and makes it universally accessible to all users in the network. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for individual users to perform manual searches across different sources
Data Source
AI summary
A user accessing a media service desires to find out more information about the media service by formulating a query, by operation of an input device, where a region of interest of said media service is selected by the user. The query is submitted to other users who are defined by various tiers defined by different types of criteria. The users belonging to such tiers respond back to the query with new information, which is rendered on the media device being used by the user. Such responses are then rendered on the media device of the user. Optionally, a computer assistance mode is operated where keywords are extracted from said communications between users, and such keywords a used to obtain additional results from a resource such as a search engine.