Parental Control Content Presentation With Supplemental Media Forms
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional systems restrict content presentation based on the most restrictive parental control settings, preventing content from being shown to users whose settings would not be violated, thus impacting their content enjoyment.
Innovation Solution
Systems and methods that identify a common authorization level allowing content to be presented to multiple users with different parental control restrictions by using supplemental content forms, such as subtitles or edited versions, while ensuring compliance with each user's settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If content is restricted based on the most restrictive parental control settings, then parental control compliance is ensured, but content enjoyment for other users is negatively impacted
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments content into multiple forms (e.g., video, audio, subtitles) and delivers different forms to different users based on their parental control settings. The main video content is restricted according to the most restrictive settings, while supplemental content in alternative forms is provided to users whose settings would not be violated, allowing each user to enjoy content appropriate to their authorization level.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies different quality levels of content delivery to different users within the same system. Each user receives content in forms that match their specific authorization level, rather than applying a uniform restriction level to all users. This allows localized optimization of content enjoyment for each user while maintaining overall system compliance.
2Device complexity
If a single authorization level is used for all users, then system complexity is reduced, but individual user needs are not met
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses a single content source that serves multiple functions by delivering different forms of the same content to different users. The supplemental content mechanism allows one piece of content to be delivered in multiple forms (video, audio, subtitles) to satisfy different authorization levels, reducing the need for multiple separate content versions while maintaining user-specific delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces supplemental content as an intermediary mechanism that bridges the gap between different authorization levels. Instead of managing multiple complex authorization systems, the supplemental content acts as a mediator that allows users with higher authorization levels to access additional content forms while maintaining compliance with restrictive settings for other users.
3Ease of operation
If supplemental content is provided to users with higher authorization levels, then content enjoyment is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-identifies and prepares supplemental content in advance based on user authorization levels before content delivery. By determining which users qualify for supplemental content and preparing appropriate forms ahead of time, the system avoids complex real-time decision-making during content delivery, reducing operational complexity while maintaining improved content enjoyment.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for identifying objects displayed in a media asset are provided. First and second parental control restrictions associated with first and second users within a perceivable range of a user equipment device are retrieved. The first parental control restriction enables access to content associated with a first authorization level and the second parental control restriction enables access to content associated with a second authorization level. A common authorization level that does not violate the first and second parental control restrictions is identified. A media asset that satisfies the common authorization level is presented to the first and second users in a first form. Supplemental content associated with the media asset that violates the second parental control restriction but does not violate the first parental control restriction is selected. The supplemental content is presented in a second form while the media asset is being presented in the first form.