Mixed-Type Media Playback for Faster Favorite Content Discovery

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing media content recommendation methods are inefficient and lack diversity, leading to poor user experience as users often need to play multiple songs or videos to find favorites, and the single form of recommendation results in missed opportunities for enjoyable content.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a method and apparatus that allows for the mixed arrangement and switching between different types of media content, such as music and video, by displaying associated information and enabling user-triggered transitions between playing pages to enhance content discovery.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If personalized recommendation mode is used to recommend media content, then user interest matching is improved, but users need to play multiple songs to find favorites which increases time consumption

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent recommendation accuracyVSAvoidtime to find favorite content

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-generates and displays associated media content (videos, lyrics, albums) alongside the currently playing music content. This preliminary preparation allows users to immediately access related content without needing to play through multiple songs sequentially, thus resolving the time consumption issue while maintaining recommendation accuracy.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent expands the recommendation from a single-dimensional sequential playback (playing one song after another) to a multi-dimensional simultaneous display (current song plus associated videos, lyrics, albums). This dimensional expansion allows users to explore multiple content types concurrently, reducing the time needed to discover favorite content.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Adaptability or versatility

If single form of media content recommendation is used, then system simplicity is maintained, but content diversity and user experience are limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent type diversityVSAvoidsystem structure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a universal associated content generation mechanism that works across multiple media types (music, videos, lyrics, albums). A single set of processing rules and display interfaces handles diverse content forms, achieving content diversity without proportionally increasing system complexity. The same technical framework serves multiple content types simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20250284379A1Method and apparatus of playing media content, device, storage medium and product

Publication Date: 2025.09.11 BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECH CO LTD

AI summary

The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus of playing a media content, a device, a storage medium and a product, the method includes: playing a first media content in a first playing page, and displaying a first associated information corresponding to a second media content associated with the first media content, wherein the first media content and the second media content are media contents of different types; and in response to a triggering operation of a user on the first associated information, playing the second media content associated with the first media content in a second playing page.