Personalized Content Portions for Faster Scene Navigation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Content streaming platforms face challenges in helping users efficiently discover relevant and engaging content due to large catalogs, non-intuitive navigation, and the inability to easily access specific content portions like favorite scenes without repetitive manual navigation.

Innovation Solution

A system generates and filters content portions based on user metadata, allowing personalized scene-based playlists that adapt to user preferences, enabling easy access to relevant content portions and seamless transitions to full-length content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If text-based search is used to find content, then users can locate specific content items, but navigation becomes highly non-intuitive and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent location accuracyVSAvoidnavigation time

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments full-length content into smaller content portions (scenes, clips, segments) with unique identifiers and thumbnail images. This segmentation allows users to directly navigate to specific portions without searching through entire content items, dramatically reducing navigation time while maintaining precise content location capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-generates content portions, thumbnails, and metadata for all full-length content items before user interaction. This preliminary action enables instant access to specific content portions through direct selection, eliminating the need for time-consuming text-based searches and manual navigation during playback.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If full-length content is provided, then users can access complete movies and shows, but users cannot easily access specific favorite scenes without repetitive manual navigation

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent access flexibilityVSAvoidscene navigation ease

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides full-length content into multiple content portions (scenes, clips, segments) that can be independently accessed. Each portion is associated with the parent full-length content item, allowing users to access specific favorite scenes directly without navigating through the entire content item, thus improving both flexibility and ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces content portions as an intermediary layer between full-length content and user access. Instead of users directly navigating full-length content, they interact with the segmented content portions which serve as mediators, providing easier access to specific scenes while maintaining connection to the parent content item.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Quantity of substance

If large content catalogs are provided, then users have more content to choose from, but content discovery becomes difficult and overwhelming

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent catalog sizeVSAvoidcontent discovery difficulty

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments large content catalogs into manageable content portions with unique identifiers and visual thumbnails. This segmentation transforms overwhelming full-length content items into smaller, more discoverable units that users can easily browse and identify, reducing content discovery difficulty while preserving the full content catalog.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system adds a new dimension of content organization by creating content portions that exist as intermediate entities between full-length content and user interface. This dimensional addition provides multiple access points and viewing angles for content discovery, making large catalogs more navigable without reducing their size.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

4Loss of information

If GUI tiles are used to display content, then visual content information is provided, but physical device constraints require extensive scrolling and menu navigation

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent information visibilityVSAvoidcontent browsing time

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments visual content display into thumbnail images representing individual content portions. These thumbnails provide visual content information in a compact format that fits within device constraints, eliminating the need for extensive scrolling while maintaining information visibility through efficient use of display space.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12418701B2Content navigation and personalization

Publication Date: 2025.09.16 DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC

AI summary

Various embodiments for recommending and displaying content are disclosed. In one example, a method is disclosed that includes generating a first set of content portions from a plurality of content portions based on a plurality of metadata tags in a user profile, wherein the content portions are a subset of frames of a content item; displaying the first set of content portions in an interface provided to a user device corresponding to the user profile; filtering the first set of content portions based on one or more filter inputs to generate a filtered set of content portions; and transmitting the at least one content portion in the filtered set of content portions to the user device for presentation to the user.