Multi-Variant Content Streaming for Personalized Storyline Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional interactive entertainment systems often disappoint audience members by forcing a single linear storyline outcome based on a majority vote, alienating those who preferred an alternative path, especially in engaging performances.
Innovation Solution
A multi-variant content streaming system generates primary and variant content tailored to individual audience preferences, using server-side resources to direct personalized content streams to users based on their interactions, allowing non-interactive users to participate through virtual engagement tools.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a single linear storyline is served based on majority vote, then production complexity is reduced and operation is simplified, but audience satisfaction deteriorates and engagement is lost for minority voters
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the audience into different voter groups (first voters, second voters, non-voters) and delivers different storyline variants to each group based on their voting behavior. This segmentation allows the system to maintain operational simplicity while significantly improving adaptability to individual audience preferences, as each group receives content tailored to their choices without requiring complex real-time decision-making.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the storyline delivery based on voting patterns detected during the performance. By monitoring votes in real-time and automatically switching between different storyline variants (first storyline, second storyline, third storyline), the system achieves both operational simplicity through automation and high adaptability to audience preferences, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and adaptability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If interactive voting is implemented to engage audience, then audience engagement is improved, but system complexity increases due to need to process and respond to individual votes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses pre-prepared storyline variants (first storyline, second storyline, third storyline) that are created in advance rather than generating content in real-time. This copying approach allows the system to maintain high audience interaction capability while minimizing processing complexity, as the system only needs to select and deliver pre-existing content variants based on voting patterns rather than creating new content dynamically.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by preparing multiple storyline variants before the performance begins. These variants are ready in advance and can be quickly deployed based on voting outcomes. This preliminary preparation significantly reduces the complexity of real-time vote processing while maintaining high adaptability to audience preferences, as the heavy computational work is done beforehand.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple storyline variants are prepared and delivered to different audience members, then individual audience satisfaction is improved, but production complexity and resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the single performance serve multiple functions by delivering different storyline variants to different audience groups simultaneously. The same performance infrastructure and content delivery system handle both the first storyline for first voters and the second storyline for second voters, eliminating the need for separate production systems for each variant and reducing overall device complexity while maintaining personalized content delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses pre-recorded or pre-prepared copies of different storyline variants that can be distributed through the existing content delivery infrastructure. This approach allows personalized content delivery to multiple audience members without requiring complex real-time content generation capabilities, as the system simply distributes pre-existing copies tailored to each group's preferences.
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AI summary
A multi-variant content streaming system includes processing hardware and a system memory storing software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to stream primary content to a plurality of media players, and receive, from a first media player of the plurality of media players, first user interaction data of a first user interacting with the first media player with the primary content. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to generate, using the first user interaction data, first variant content based on the primary content, and stream the first variant content to the first media player while continuing to stream the primary content to media players of the plurality of media players other than the first media player.