Query Response Service for Broadcast Audience Traffic

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Solution Overview

Problem

Media content providers face challenges in converting their broadcast audiences into regular users of their websites due to the significant investment required for fresh content and the lack of an efficient method to associate broadcast media with website navigation.

Innovation Solution

A Query/Response service that creates interactive queries and banners, redirecting audience members to affiliated websites, with optional advertisements and demographic data collection, to motivate frequent visits and increase website traffic.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If media content providers invest in fresh, topical content for their websites, then website quality and audience retention improve, but the investment cost increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewebsite audience retentionVSAvoidcontent investment
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses query banners that copy the broadcast content theme and redirect audiences to website destinations. Instead of creating entirely new content, the system repurposes broadcast query content into web traffic generators, reducing the need for substantial new content creation while maintaining audience engagement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces query banners as an intermediary between broadcast content and website destinations. These banners serve as a bridge that redirects audiences from broadcast queries to website pages, eliminating the need for direct content creation on the website while maintaining the connection between broadcast and web presence.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If media content providers create engaging website content to attract audiences, then website traffic increases, but the complexity of content production and maintenance increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewebsite trafficVSAvoidcontent production complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system copies broadcast query content into query banners that redirect to website destinations. This approach generates website traffic without requiring complex content production, as the banners simply redirect audiences to pre-existing website content rather than requiring new content creation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent prepares query banners in advance with predetermined destinations and content. By pre-configuring the banners with target URLs and content themes, the system eliminates the need for real-time content production decisions, reducing operational complexity while maintaining traffic generation capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Productivity

If media content providers implement interactive query systems with banners and redirects, then audience engagement and website traffic increase, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaudience engagementVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the interactive system into distinct components: query banners displayed on broadcast channels, redirect mechanisms that route traffic to websites, and tracking systems that monitor engagement. This segmentation allows each component to function independently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining interactive engagement capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The query banner serves as an intermediary component that simplifies the interaction between broadcast and web systems. Rather than requiring complex integrated systems, the banner acts as a simple redirect mechanism that bridges the two platforms, reducing system complexity while enabling audience engagement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

4Productivity

If media content providers collect and process demographic data from audience responses, then marketing effectiveness improves, but data processing complexity and privacy requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemarketing effectivenessVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where audience responses to queries are collected and processed to generate demographic insights. The system uses this feedback to refine future query strategies and improve marketing effectiveness, while the feedback loop operates through standardized processing protocols that manage complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system processes demographic data by transforming raw response parameters into meaningful demographic categories and insights. By changing the representation of data from raw responses to processed demographic parameters, the system simplifies data handling while improving marketing effectiveness through targeted audience analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10846759B2Web enhancement for multimedia content providers
Publication Date: 2020.11.24 OLSON KELSEY IRENE
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AI summary

A Query/Response service provides Queries to Media Providers, the Queries to be displayed or played in media broadcast, and interactive Banners to be presented in web sites or other Internet destinations hosted by the Media providers. Audience members react to the Queries to visit the Media Provider's web destinations to respond to the Queries. The system motivates increased traffic to Media Provider's destinations.