Media Stream Notification Insertion at Natural Breaks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current notification techniques interrupt users during their media consumption, failing to integrate personalized notifications seamlessly into media streams.
Innovation Solution
A content distribution system that allows users to customize media streams with personalized notifications and perishable content, integrating them into natural breaks in the media experience, such as commercial slots, using a cloud-based service to manage and deliver content from various sources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If notifications are delivered using traditional methods (pop-up windows, text messages, emails), then users receive information about events and updates, but user activity is interrupted and experience is degraded
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines notifications with media streams by integrating them during natural breaks such as commercial slots. Instead of delivering notifications separately through pop-ups or text messages, the system merges them with the media content the user is already consuming, creating a unified delivery mechanism that preserves user experience while ensuring notification delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses media streams as an intermediary to deliver notifications. Rather than directly interrupting users with traditional notification methods, the media stream acts as a mediator that naturally incorporates notifications during appropriate intervals, thereby delivering information without degrading user experience.
2Ease of operation
If notifications are integrated into media streams during natural breaks, then user experience is enhanced and interruptions are reduced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a multi-functional notification delivery mechanism that can handle both traditional notifications and media-integrated notifications through a unified architecture. The notification service is designed to work across multiple delivery channels (traditional and media-stream integrated) using common components for content conversion, scheduling, and delivery management, thereby reducing overall system complexity despite the enhanced functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the notification delivery process into distinct modular components: notification generation, media stream analysis for break detection, content conversion, scheduling, and delivery. This segmentation allows each component to be independently developed, tested, and maintained, managing system complexity while enabling sophisticated integration of notifications into media streams.
3Ease of operation
If text-based notifications are converted to audio and inserted into media streams, then notifications are seamlessly integrated, but processing time and resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary conversion of text-based notifications to audio format before they need to be inserted into media streams. By pre-processing notifications and converting them to the appropriate format in advance, the system reduces processing time during actual delivery and enables faster integration into media streams when break points are identified.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification system includes automated components that handle content conversion, formatting, and scheduling without requiring manual intervention. The system self-manages the transformation of text notifications into audio content and automatically inserts them at appropriate media stream breaks, reducing the time and resources required for manual processing while maintaining seamless integration.
Data Source
AI summary
First account information associated with a media delivery platform account is associated with second account information associated a third-party service provider account. Both the media delivery platform account and the third-party service provider account are associated with a particular consumer, and the first account information includes information indicating whether insertion of converted text-based notifications are enabled for a particular broadcast media stream. A text-based notification, which originates from the third-party service provider account and is directed to the particular consumer, is received. In response to determining, based on the first account information, that insertion of converted text-based notifications is enabled for the particular broadcast media stream: 1) the text-based notification into a converted text-based notification including personalized audio content; and 2) the converted-text-based notification is inserted into the particular broadcast media stream.