Multimodal Content Recognition and Contextual Advertising
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users may not be able to fully experience multimedia content on mobile devices when certain channels, such as display or audio output, are unavailable, due to the content being intended for unavailable channels.
Innovation Solution
A content delivery proxy server analyzes the available device channels and provides supplemental content compatible with the prominent formats of the requested multimedia content, ensuring it can be played on the available channels, such as audio or visual formats, while acting as an intermediary between client devices and multimedia content providers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multimedia content is delivered in various formats for different device channels, then content quality and user experience are improved, but the system cannot adapt when certain device channels are unavailable
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of device channel availability before delivering multimedia content. The proxy server identifies which channels (display, audio, etc.) are available on the client device and pre-selects appropriate content formats, ensuring reliable playback by matching content to available channels in advance.
Solution Approach 2:
The content delivery system dynamically adapts to changing device channel availability. When channels become unavailable or new channels become available during content consumption, the system adjusts the delivered content format accordingly, maintaining reliability through real-time adaptation rather than static delivery.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the proxy server analyzes and selects supplemental content based on device channel availability, then content compatibility is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a proxy server as an intermediary between the content source and the client device. This mediator performs the complex analysis of device channel availability and selects appropriate supplemental content formats, shielding the client device from complexity while ensuring content compatibility through intelligent intermediate processing.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure is directed to providing supplemental content to one or more client devices requesting multimedia content. The supplemental content may be determined or selected based on the availability of one or more device channels, such as a display, speakers, or other component of the one or more client devices capable of providing an output. Furthermore, the supplemental content may be determined or selected based on the portions of the requested multimedia content that are the most prominent or significant, such as any audio content, any video content, and/or any textual content. The supplemental content may be provided to the one or more client devices such that it is displayed before, during, or after the display of the requested multimedia content.