Remote Media Player Event Notification System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional place shifting technologies lack flexibility in allowing users to selectively view key portions of media content, such as live events, as they cannot continuously monitor media streams from remote locations.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that enables users to register for selective notifications of events within a media stream, allowing them to switch channels or stop streaming while the system monitors for event occurrences, generating notifications to automatically switch or alert the user to desired content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional place shifting is used to transmit media content to remote devices, then users can view content from remote locations, but users cannot selectively view key portions of media content when unable to continuously monitor the stream
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by monitoring the media stream and detecting key events in advance, then sends notifications to the remote device before the user needs to view the content. This allows the user to be alerted to key portions of content and selectively view them later, resolving the contradiction between remote viewing convenience and flexibility to view desired content.
2Loss of information
If the system monitors media streams for event detection, then users can receive notifications of key events, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential event detection functionality from the complete media processing system. By focusing solely on detecting predefined key events (such as goals in sports, breaking news, etc.) and transmitting minimal notification data to remote devices, the system reduces complexity while still providing valuable event information to users.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are provided that allow a user to register for selective notifications of one or more events that may occur on a channel in a media stream. When a registered event occurs, the system and method generates an event notification, which is delivered to the remotely-located media player. In response to the event notification, the media player can be automatically enabled and/or switched to the appropriate channel. Alternatively, the system and method may notify the user of the event, and give the user the option of enabling and/or switching the media player to the channel corresponding to the event. The system and method can be implemented to facilitate monitoring for a variety of different types. In each of these various types the user is able to select the events for which monitoring and notification will be provided.