Media User Identification for Automatic Content Restriction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies struggle to accurately identify users for personalized content recommendations and customized viewing experiences in media streaming systems, particularly when users enter or leave the vicinity without logging out.

Innovation Solution

A network-based user identification system that uses discovery signals and interaction methods to detect mobile devices within a threshold vicinity, determining user settings and configuring media devices accordingly, employing techniques such as Bluetooth, geolocation, and biometric sensing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If user identification and content restrictions are implemented in cloud-based AI services, then service security and compliance are improved, but system complexity and processing overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice securityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

User identification and content restriction rules are established beforehand through configurable policies before actual AI service requests are processed. The system pre-defines user roles, permission levels, and content filtering criteria, so that during runtime, only straightforward matching and enforcement operations are needed, reducing real-time processing complexity while maintaining security and compliance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple AI service models are supported with different capabilities, then service versatility is improved, but system complexity and resource management difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice versatilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A unified service management platform is designed that can handle multiple types of AI service models through a common interface and standardized processing framework. The system provides universal user identification, content restriction enforcement, and request routing mechanisms that work across different AI models, allowing diverse services to be managed through a single system rather than requiring separate management for each model type

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments AI services into modular components with standardized interfaces, allowing different service models to be independently managed while being coordinated through a central control mechanism. This segmentation enables the system to handle multiple service types without overwhelming complexity, as each service can be processed through its own dedicated pipeline while sharing common infrastructure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP3607753B1Time and content restrictions based on user-identification
Publication Date: 2026.04.29 ROKU INC
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AI summary

Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for determining time and content restrictions based user identification. An embodiment operates by automatically identifying a user who is using a media device using at least one of a network-oriented method of user discovery and an user-action oriented method of user discovery. Preferences, including at least one of a time limit or content restriction, associated with the identified user are accessed. The accessed restriction is enforced against the identified user.