Media Content Synchronization via Location Markers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in seamlessly transitioning between different formats of media content, such as from print to digital, without synchronizing their position, leading to inefficiencies in continuing consumption where they left off.
Innovation Solution
A system that captures a portion of media content using a device, generates a location marker, and provides the corresponding media content item at that marked location, utilizing techniques like OCR, audio recognition, and video fingerprinting to identify and synchronize the media content across different formats and devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users consume media content across multiple devices and formats without synchronization, then they can access content flexibly, but they lose track of their consumption position and cannot resume seamlessly
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically captures consumption position information from the first device and provides feedback to the second device, enabling seamless resumption. The location marker generation and transmission creates a feedback loop that maintains synchronization across devices without user intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary system (electronic retail store/server) that mediates between the first and second devices. This intermediary captures the location marker from the first device and transmits it to the second device, enabling position synchronization across different devices and formats.
2Ease of operation
If users manually track their position in media content across different devices, then they can resume consumption, but the process requires significant user effort and time
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic position tracking and synchronization without requiring user intervention. The first device automatically generates location markers, and the system automatically transmits them to the second device, eliminating the need for manual position tracking by the user.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically capturing and storing the consumption position (location marker) before the user needs to switch devices. This preliminary tracking enables immediate resumption without time loss when the user switches to a different device.
3Reliability
If the system synchronizes media content position across different formats and devices, then users can resume seamlessly, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the position synchronization functionality from the individual devices and places it in a separate system (electronic retail store/server). This extraction reduces device complexity while maintaining reliable synchronization, as the complex synchronization logic resides in the centralized system rather than in each user device.
Data Source
AI summary
Technology is described for receiving a portion of the media content. A media content item associated with the portion of media content may be identified. A location marker may be generated for the media content item that corresponds to the portion of media content.