Open Overlay Service System for Synchronized Music Playback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional social networking sites restrict open and legal music sharing across multiple platforms, requiring complex setups that are difficult to maintain, limiting users' ability to share and control music playback within their social networks.
Innovation Solution
An open overlay service system that allows users to subscribe to a master session, synchronize media players, and distribute music selections with playback control, enabling seamless music sharing and playback across social networks while adhering to legal and copyright restrictions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional music services employ captive policies, then music sharing is restricted, but open and legal sharing across multiple services is discouraged
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a session manager as an intermediary component that coordinates music playback across multiple users and services. This session manager enables open music sharing by mediating between different music services and user devices, allowing seamless playback control without requiring complex direct integrations between each service and device.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a universal session management framework that works across multiple music services and platforms. The session manager provides multi-functional capabilities including playlist synchronization, playback control, and user coordination that operate independently of specific music service providers, enabling versatile music sharing without service-specific complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If conventional technologies require complex set-up for music sharing, then music sharing is limited, but maintenance difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The session manager implements self-service functionality by automatically synchronizing playback state, coordinating user actions, and managing session configuration. This automation eliminates the need for manual setup and maintenance of complex sharing configurations, as the system self-adjusts to maintain synchronized playback across participants.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing session templates and synchronization protocols before music sharing begins. Configuration and coordination settings are prepared in advance, eliminating the need for complex real-time adjustments during music sharing sessions and simplifying ongoing maintenance.
3Ease of operation
If users want to select and control music playback within social network, then user control is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges music playback control functionality with the existing session management infrastructure of the social networking system. By combining playback control with session coordination in a unified manager, the system provides enhanced user control capabilities without adding separate complex control systems, as the same session manager handles both synchronization and playback operations.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention allow a user to master the music played among a social network. Users of the social network subscribe to the master's session and synchronize their media player under control of the master. The master then distributes various selections of music and controls their playback. The master may also add other data, such as voice over or images, to accompany the playback.