Relay Content Playback Based on User Relationships

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing content provision services lack the ability to recommend content based on user relationships within a content provision service, failing to strengthen the interconnectedness of content consumption.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for providing a source content and relay content, where relay content is subordinate to the source content, allowing users to interact with selection interfaces to choose and upload new relay content, and determining playback conditions based on user relationships and preferences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If content provision services provide continuous playback of short-form videos, then content consumption speed increases, but user engagement and interconnectedness of content decrease

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent consumption speedVSAvoiduser engagement

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a 'relay content' as an intermediary element between the source content and user interaction. When a user watches a source content, the system automatically provides relay content related to that source content, creating an interconnected content network. This mediator mechanism maintains fast content flow while enhancing user engagement through meaningful content connections.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by analyzing user interaction with source content and automatically generating personalized relay content recommendations. The relay content is determined based on user watching behavior, creating a feedback loop that adapts content delivery to user preferences, thereby enhancing engagement without sacrificing consumption speed.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If the system provides multiple relay content choices to users, then user engagement increases, but interface complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser engagementVSAvoidinterface complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial action by providing a limited, curated selection of relay content rather than overwhelming users with all possible content choices. The interface presents a manageable subset of relevant relay content, maintaining simplicity while still offering meaningful user engagement through selective content recommendations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Measurement precision

If the system automatically determines relay content based on user relationships, then content recommendation accuracy improves, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent recommendation accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-establishing user relationship data and content metadata before the actual content delivery occurs. User profiles, relationships, and content associations are prepared in advance, allowing the system to quickly retrieve and present appropriate relay content without excessive processing delays during actual content consumption.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20250227340A1Method, server, and user terminal for providing relay content

Publication Date: 2025.07.10 KAKAO CORP

AI summary

Proposed is a method for providing a relay content by a server. The method may include providing a source content to a first user terminal, determining whether the first user terminal plays the source content while meeting a relay content playback condition, and providing at least one relay content to the first user terminal. The at least one relay content may be subordinate to the source content, and the source content and the at least one relay content may be provided by different users.