Open Overlay Service System for Cross-Network Multimedia Tagging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in sharing and highlighting content across multiple social networking services, as existing platforms are typically closed systems that do not allow seamless integration or sharing of multimedia content with external related information.
Innovation Solution
An open overlay service system that enables users to tag multimedia content with data or pointers to external information, allowing users to share and link content across different social networks, using a network architecture that includes clients, services, and an open overlay service that interfaces with existing social networking platforms, enabling seamless sharing and tagging of multimedia content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users maintain separate accounts on multiple social networking sites, then they can access diverse content and services, but it becomes difficult to share and highlight content across these services
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary service that acts as a mediator between multiple social networking sites and user devices. This service receives content from various sources, processes it, and distributes it across different platforms, enabling seamless sharing without requiring users to manually manage separate accounts and interfaces for each site.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a universal content sharing platform that can interface with multiple social networking sites simultaneously. By establishing a common protocol and data structure that works across different platforms, the invention enables a single user interface to manage content sharing across multiple services, reducing the complexity of maintaining separate accounts.
2Reliability
If social networking sites employ closed platforms, then they can maintain their user base and control their services, but users cannot seamlessly share content with external related information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs an intermediary service that acts as a buffer between closed social networking platforms and external content sources. This mediator translates and adapts data between different platform protocols, allowing content to be shared externally while maintaining the integrity and control of the original closed platforms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the content sharing functionality into separate modular components that can independently interface with different social networking platforms. Each platform connection is handled as an independent module, allowing the system to maintain reliable connections to closed platforms while simultaneously integrating external content through dedicated interface modules.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention allow users to tag a multimedia program or stream with data or pointers to external information related to content of the multimedia program. Users in a social network may tag various aspects of the content, such as a particular actor, a type of car, jewelry, a location, a phrase, etc. This tagging information may then be linked to various websites that provide further information about the tagged content and may be keyed to video offset times.