Multimedia Activity Curation via Segment Mapping

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Solution Overview

Problem

Content creators and consumers face challenges in effectively collaborating and receiving detailed feedback to improve content, with existing systems lacking in providing comprehensive and efficient methods for managing and displaying user activities associated with multimedia content.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented data processing method that electronically curates and maps user activities to segments of multimedia content, processes these activities to determine curation scores, and displays them to relevant users, allowing for improved feedback and collaboration by linking activities to specific segments and groups.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If user activities are manually curated and displayed without automated processing, then detailed feedback can be obtained, but the system complexity and time consumption increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefeedback detailVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automated curation of user activities through self-service mechanisms. The processor automatically evaluates activity information, generates curation scores, and selects relevant activities without requiring manual intervention. This allows the system to maintain detailed feedback capabilities while reducing operational complexity and time consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system transforms qualitative feedback into quantitative parameters by evaluating activity information and generating numerical curation scores. This parameter transformation enables automated comparison, filtering, and selection of activities based on objective criteria, resolving the contradiction between detailed feedback and system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Quantity of substance

If all user activities are displayed without selection, then comprehensive feedback is provided, but information overload occurs and usability decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefeedback quantityVSAvoidusability
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and displays only the most relevant user activities by evaluating activity information and selecting activities based on curation scores. This extraction process filters out redundant or low-value activities, providing comprehensive yet manageable feedback that maintains usability without information overload.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies different quality standards to different activities by evaluating their individual characteristics and assigning curation scores. High-quality activities that meet specific criteria are selected for display, while lower-quality activities are filtered out. This local quality approach ensures that the displayed feedback is both comprehensive in coverage and optimized for usability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Productivity

If activities are processed and curated automatically, then time efficiency improves, but measurement precision of feedback may be reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetime efficiencyVSAvoidfeedback accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements automated feedback loops where activity information is continuously evaluated, curation scores are generated, and selected activities are displayed. This automated feedback mechanism maintains measurement precision by using objective evaluation criteria while significantly improving time efficiency through processor-based automation rather than manual review.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

4Measurement precision

If activities are mapped to specific segments of media content, then feedback relevance improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefeedback relevanceVSAvoidmapping complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments media content into distinct portions and maps user activities to specific segments based on temporal or contextual relationships. This segmentation approach improves feedback relevance by associating activities with their corresponding content portions while managing complexity through systematic mapping rules implemented by the processor.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10691749B2Data processing system for managing activities linked to multimedia content
Publication Date: 2020.06.23 RALI SOLUTIONS LLC
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AI summary

An activity management system is configured to allow users to access multimedia content where the multimedia content is divided into segments. While a user is viewing or interacting with the multimedia content, the user can submit one or more activities (e.g., comments, questions, replies, or reactions) using an interface. The system is operable to electronically link the activity provided by the user with the particular segment of multimedia content in which the activity was captured by the system. The system is also configured to curate activities that are displayed to a user for any given segment based on (1) viewers linked to the user (e.g., groups, social media groups, etc.), (2) viewers that influence the user, (3) a threshold number of activities set by the viewer or the system; (4) group membership of either the viewer or the user; etc.