Media Streaming Social Data Integration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current streaming services do not allow subscribers to share media information or metadata with other subscribers or endpoints, limiting social interaction and content dissemination.

Innovation Solution

A system and process that enables a processing device to receive user selections of media streams, determine corresponding accounts for social messaging servers, and generate commands to share media information, including metadata or content, with other accounts, using tagging applications to facilitate social data manipulation and sharing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If streaming services maintain a simple media delivery system, then system complexity is low, but social interaction and content sharing capabilities are limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesocial interaction capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the media streaming server with social networking server functionalities into a unified system. The processing device integrates both media delivery and social interaction capabilities, allowing subscribers to share media information and metadata while consuming content. This merging enables the system to provide both streaming services and social interaction without requiring separate independent systems.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The streaming server is designed to perform multiple functions: delivering media content, receiving user selections, determining social media accounts, and sharing media information across different platforms. This multi-functionality allows a single system to handle both traditional streaming operations and social media integration, reducing the need for separate specialized systems.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Loss of information

If streaming services integrate social networking capabilities, then content sharing is enhanced, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemedia information sharingVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a processing device that acts as an intermediary between the media streaming server and social networking servers. This processing device receives user selections, determines corresponding social media accounts, and facilitates the sharing of media information. By using this intermediary layer, the system enables information sharing without requiring direct complex integration between streaming and social networking components.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system is divided into distinct functional components: a media streaming server for content delivery, a processing device for handling user selections and account determination, and social networking servers for information sharing. This segmentation allows each component to operate independently with well-defined interfaces, reducing overall system complexity while enabling comprehensive functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Productivity

If subscribers can share media information with multiple accounts, then content dissemination is improved, but data management complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent dissemination efficiencyVSAvoiddata management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by determining the subscriber's social media account in advance before sharing media information. The processing device receives the user selection, determines the corresponding social media account, and prepares the sharing operation. This preliminary account determination simplifies the subsequent data sharing process by having the target account ready before content dissemination begins.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS9577974B1Methods, devices, and mediums associated with manipulating social data from streaming services

Publication Date: 2017.02.21 INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 79 LLC

AI summary

In one example, an electronic device may be configured to receive over a network a user selection of media information that corresponds to a media streaming server, wherein the received user selection corresponds to a first account of the media streaming server. The electronic device may be configured to determine a second account that corresponds to an electronic messaging server in response to receiving the user selection. The second account may be different than the first account. The electronic device may be configured to cause a message including at least a portion of the media information to be electronically delivered to the electronic messaging server using the second account.