Persona-Based Video Selection System for TV Content Discovery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Consumers face frustration due to the overwhelming number of video choices without an easy way to identify shows that align with their interests, leading to difficulty in selecting a suitable television show to watch.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that allows a television set to connect with a persona television system over a data network, where a persona representation is used to select a television show based on user preferences, sending a show description with video source information to the television set for automatic selection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If consumers are provided with many video choices, then the variety and selection of content increase, but the complexity of selection and time required to find suitable shows increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a persona as an intermediary between the viewer and the vast library of video content. The persona acts as a mediator that automatically searches, evaluates, and selects appropriate shows based on the viewer's preferences, thereby resolving the contradiction by maintaining high content variety while eliminating selection complexity for the user
2Adaptability or versatility
If consumers are provided with many video choices, then the variety and selection of content increase, but the time spent searching for suitable shows increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring personas with specific preferences, criteria, and search parameters before the viewer needs to select content. When a viewer activates a persona, the selection process has already been prepared and can execute immediately, thus providing access to diverse content without requiring real-time search effort from the user
3Ease of operation
If traditional television guide methods are used, then the simplicity of selection is maintained, but the variety and availability of content are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal selection system that can access and manage content from multiple sources including traditional cable networks, online streaming services, downloaded videos, and user-generated content platforms like YouTube. The persona-based system provides a single unified interface that handles all these diverse content sources, thereby maintaining selection simplicity while dramatically expanding content availability across multiple platforms and formats
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AI summary
A system includes a television set for displaying a video for a viewer. The television set connects to a persona television system over a data network and sends a request for a television show for a persona to the persona television system. A “persona” includes a character representation of a person other than the viewer, an event, or a group. The persona television system selects a television show based on the persona. The persona television system sends to the television set a show description of the television show. The show description includes video source information about video source such that the television set can obtain television show from video source. In this manner, a data network video is automatically selected as a television show based on a persona and provided to the television set, increasing the ease with which the viewer can identify video choices of interest.