Sender-Controlled Media Playback on Mobile Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile devices lack personalized and interactive contact management systems, requiring significant user effort to play custom content like ringtones and videos during contact events, which often go stale without regular updates.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses a computer-to-computer interface with natural language processing and metadata matching to associate hash tags with messages, enabling sender-controlled contact media content to be automatically played on recipient devices during contact events, using voice and data layer transmission for rich interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users create custom content for contact events, then personalization is improved, but user effort and complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically manages contact media content by detecting contact events and autonomously playing appropriate content without requiring continuous user intervention. The sender creates content once, and the system handles distribution, storage, and automatic playback detection, making the system self-sufficient after initial setup.
Solution Approach 2:
Users pre-configure their contact media content library and associations with contacts before actual contact events occur. The system stores these preferences in advance, so when a contact event happens, the appropriate content is automatically selected and played without requiring real-time user decisions.
2Ease of operation
If manual content management is used, then content control is precise, but content freshness deteriorates over time
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors for contact events and automatically updates content playback based on detected events. When a contact event is detected, the system retrieves and plays the appropriate pre-configured content, providing feedback loops that keep content fresh without manual intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The system maintains continuous operation by automatically detecting contact events and playing appropriate content in real-time. This continuous automated operation ensures content remains fresh and relevant without requiring periodic manual updates or user attention.
3Ease of operation
If automated content playback is implemented, then user effort is reduced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary automated management layer between the user and contact events. This intermediary automatically detects contact events, selects appropriate content from the user's library, and handles playback, reducing user effort while concentrating complexity in the automated management system rather than requiring complex user actions.
4Adaptability or versatility
If contact events are customized with media content, then interaction quality is improved, but processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Content selection and preparation are performed in advance when users configure their contact media libraries. During actual contact events, the system only needs to retrieve and play pre-selected content, significantly reducing real-time processing requirements while maintaining high interaction quality.
Data Source
AI summary
A method may include receiving an indication of a call from a caller who is not a participant in a sender-controlled media (SCM) platform to a recipient who is a participant, using caller ID information to gather content pertaining to the caller (e.g., from data stores of the platform and public number search information), generating a SCM data structure based on the gathered content, and delivering the SCM data structure to a call-originating device. In another aspect, a method may include gathering call context for an active call, and developing an understanding of one or more of a call intent, a call participant, and a participant action based on content exchanged between the caller and recipient. Content suggesting algorithms may then determine candidate items of content relevant to the participants of the call for presentation to at least one of the caller and the recipient during the call.