Multimedia Message Composition via Interest-Based Contributor Selection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face challenges in collaborating on multimedia communications across devices with different capabilities and network formats, making it difficult to create and share personalized content for events like birthdays and weddings.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that determines interest levels among network members to select contributors, combines messages into a unified media message, and provides it to recipients in a personalized format, allowing for collaborative content creation and delivery across social networks.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users collaborate on multimedia communications across different devices and networks, then the personalized content can be enriched with diverse formats and perspectives, but the complexity of collaboration increases due to different device capabilities and network formats

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalized content enrichmentVSAvoidcollaboration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The server acts as an intermediary that receives multimedia messages from multiple contributors in different formats, processes and converts them into a unified format, and delivers the composite message to the recipient. This mediator resolves the complexity of direct peer-to-peer collaboration across diverse devices and networks by centralizing the format conversion and composition operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system is designed to handle multiple message formats (text, audio, video, images) from different device types (mobile phones, tablets, computers) through a universal processing framework. The server provides multi-functional capabilities including format detection, conversion, composition, and delivery, making the system adaptable to various input sources without requiring device-specific collaboration protocols.

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

2Measurement precision

If the system selects contributors based on interest levels, then the relevance and quality of personalized content improves, but the process of determining interest levels and selecting contributors increases system complexity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontributor selection accuracyVSAvoidselection process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system determines interest levels by analyzing feedback signals from user interactions, such as viewing behavior, contribution patterns, and engagement metrics. This feedback mechanism enables automated interest level assessment and contributor selection without requiring manual configuration, reducing the perceived complexity while improving selection accuracy through data-driven decisions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs self-service by automatically determining interest levels and selecting contributors without requiring explicit user intervention. The server autonomously analyzes interaction data, computes interest metrics, and identifies appropriate contributors, thereby improving selection precision while minimizing the operational complexity for end users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Stability of the object's composition

If multiple messages in different formats are combined into a unified media message, then the collaborative output becomes more cohesive and deliverable, but the processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage composition unityVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The server performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and converting individual messages into a unified format before composition. By standardizing formats in advance and preparing conversion templates, the system reduces the computational burden during the actual composition phase, thereby maintaining message unity while minimizing processing time delays.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically changes parameters such as format conversion methods and composition strategies based on the types of messages received and the recipient's device capabilities. By adapting conversion parameters and processing priorities, the system achieves cohesive message composition while optimizing processing efficiency and reducing time loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS9282075B2Collaborative composition of multimedia communications
Publication Date: 2016.03.08 COMCAST CABLE COMM LLC
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AI summary

Provided are methods and systems for providing personalized communications. An exemplary method can comprise determining an interest level in contributing to a media message for a recipient. The method can comprise selecting, based on the interest level, a plurality of contributors from a network of members associated with a recipient. The method can also comprise receiving at least two messages in one or more formats from the plurality of contributors. The method can further comprise combining the at least two messages into a media message. The method can comprise providing the media message to a recipient.