Media Stream Trust Display for Individual Content Elements

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing techniques fail to provide accessible trust information for individual content elements within web-based communications, making it difficult for users to verify the authenticity of media streams and other embedded content.

Innovation Solution

A media stream trust display system that renders composite content in a user interface, allowing users to access trust data on an individual element basis through a trust model, using separate elements to represent trust data and providing previews like thumbnail images or live media tiles, enabling users to verify the authenticity of media streams and other content elements.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If trust information is provided for the entire page or domain, then users can verify the overall authenticity of the web page, but users cannot obtain information regarding the authenticity of individual content elements embedded within the page

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrust information accessibilityVSAvoidtrust display structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the trust information display by creating separate trust display elements for each content element within the composite content. Each trust display element is associated with a specific content element (image, video, audio, etc.) and provides individualized trust information, allowing users to verify the authenticity of each element separately rather than receiving a single aggregate trust indicator for the entire page.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of operation

If separate trust display elements are provided for each content element, then users can access individual element trust information, but the user interface complexity and information overload increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveindividual element verificationVSAvoiduser interface structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by positioning each trust display element in close proximity to its associated content element within the rendered composite content. This spatial relationship allows users to easily associate each trust indicator with its corresponding content element without requiring complex navigation or information processing, thereby simplifying the user interface while providing detailed individual verification capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Reliability

If detailed trust data is displayed for each content element, then users can make informed decisions about content authenticity, but the amount of information presented to users increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent authenticity verificationVSAvoidtrust information volume
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and displays only the most relevant trust information for each content element in a simplified format. Rather than presenting all available metadata and verification details, the system extracts key trust indicators (such as verification status, source authenticity, and safety ratings) and presents them in an easily digestible manner within each trust display element, maintaining reliability while reducing information volume.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS9699199B2Media stream trust display
Publication Date: 2017.07.04 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

Media stream trust display techniques are described in which trust information regarding content elements is accessible on an individual element basis. In particular, composite content having various content elements is rendered via a user interface of a browser or other application that supports web-based communications. Trust data is then obtained for the content elements on an individual basis in accordance with a trust model implemented by the application that facilitates retrieval of trust assertions for individual content elements. The user interface may be configured to display trust data using separate elements to represent trust data for different content elements. The display of trust data may include previews of content elements, such as thumbnail images and/or live media tiles for media streams. Additionally, a thumbnail view of a composite page/document may be provided that has selectable representations of content elements through which a user may access corresponding trust data.