Personalized Channel System for Dynamic Content Scheduling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Broadcast television systems provide predetermined media content based on a broadcast schedule, limiting user control and personalization in content selection and delivery.
Innovation Solution
A personalized channel system that allows users to create and customize their own channels by requesting content from providers, classifying, sequencing, and delivering content according to user-defined preferences and schedules, using modules like Content Acquirer/Subscriber, Content Classifier, AI Analytics/Recommender, Content Regrouping Summarizer, and Content Delivery Streamer.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If broadcast television systems provide predetermined media content based on a broadcast schedule, then content delivery is standardized and reliable, but user control and personalization in content selection are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments content delivery into multiple independent components: content acquisition module, content classification module, content sequencing module, and content delivery module. Each module handles a specific aspect of the personalization process, allowing users to customize content without requiring complete system redesign. The content is divided into classified categories that can be independently selected and arranged.
Solution Approach 2:
The broadcast schedule is transformed from a static predetermined structure to a dynamic user-defined schedule. Users can modify content selection, adjust sequencing, and change delivery timing according to their preferences. The system adapts the content delivery schedule in real-time based on user interactions and preferences, making the traditionally fixed broadcast schedule flexible and personalized.
2Adaptability or versatility
If content is classified and sequenced according to user preferences, then content personalization is improved, but processing time and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs content classification and categorization in advance, before user selection. Content from multiple providers is pre-acquired, pre-classified into categories, and pre-organized. This preliminary processing reduces the time required for real-time personalization, as the system only needs to select and sequence from already-prepared content categories rather than processing raw content from scratch during delivery.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple content providers are integrated into a personalized channel, then content variety and user choice are improved, but system complexity and coordination difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces content providers as intermediary entities that supply content according to standardized interfaces and protocols. Each content provider operates independently, providing content in a uniform format that the central system can easily classify, sequence, and deliver. This intermediary structure simplifies coordination by establishing clear boundaries and standard interactions between the system and multiple content sources.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including initiating a creation of a personalized channel responsive to equipment of a user requesting to create the personalized channel, providing a search request to equipment of a content provider for content for the personalized channel according to the request, retrieving content from the content provider according to the search request as retrieved content, classifying the content for the personalized channel according to the content of the retrieved content to generate classified content according to a content type and a content source of the retrieved content, sequencing the classified content to generate sequenced content, assigning the sequenced content to a time slot in a schedule of the personalized channel as ready-for-broadcast content, and delivering the ready-for-broadcast content to the personalized channel according to the time slot in the schedule. Other embodiments are disclosed.