Online Broadcasting Apparatus Channel Mapping for Content Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current OTT services using set-top boxes and smart TVs face challenges in accessing online multimedia content due to the difficulty in text input via remote controls, making it hard for users to find and view User Created Contents and other online multimedia content that aligns with their interests.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method that map content table addresses to TV channels, allowing users to easily access and view online multimedia content by selecting channels using a remote control, with features like email or message-based content table delivery, ID number mapping, and color-based command conversion for advertisement control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users directly search for online multimedia contents using remote control, then they can access specific content addresses, but text input becomes difficult and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a content table as an intermediary between users and online multimedia contents. Instead of directly inputting content addresses, users select from pre-organized content tables that map channel numbers to content locations, eliminating the need for complex text input while maintaining access capability
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-organizes content tables with content addresses and schedule times before user access. This preliminary organization allows users to simply select from pre-prepared options rather than performing time-consuming search and input operations at the moment of access
2Adaptability or versatility
If users manually search for User Created Contents among various online platforms, then they can find specific content, but the process becomes very difficult and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The content table structure serves multiple functions: it stores content addresses, schedule times, and categorizes various types of multimedia contents from different online platforms. This universal structure handles diverse content types (broadcasting, UCC, on-demand) through a single interface, reducing operational complexity while maintaining versatility
Solution Approach 2:
The content table acts as a mediator that aggregates and organizes content from multiple online platforms and UCC sources. Users interact with this single organized interface rather than navigating multiple platforms individually, simplifying the search process while maintaining access to diverse content
3Ease of operation
If conventional remote control interface is used for accessing online multimedia contents, then basic operations are simple, but character input and direct site access become difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The content table serves as an intermediary layer that bridges the simple remote control interface and the complex online content addresses. Users can operate the simple remote control to select from pre-organized content tables, which then translate selections into appropriate content access operations, maintaining both simplicity and versatility
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus for providing online multimedia contents acquires, in a pre-designated manner, a content table addresses, in which a content table consisting of a plurality of content information with each set time to be played back is stored, maps and stores the content table address to a designated channel, obtains the content table based on the content table address, analyzes the content information corresponding to the current time among the plurality of content information included in the content table to obtain a content address where a multimedia content is stored, acquires the multimedia content online based on the obtained content address, outputs the multimedia content through TV, thereby allowing a TV user to easily view various multimedia contents available online by simply changing the channel buttons of the remote control and thereby maximizing the user convenience of online multimedia contents.