Server Device Personalized Comment Icons via Symbol Merging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing video comment systems fail to adequately reflect the individuality of users, as pre-defined stamps are shared among users, leading to a lack of distinctiveness in comments, even when multiple users contribute, thereby reducing the effectiveness of user-generated comments.
Innovation Solution
A server device that includes a comment specification unit for selecting pre-defined comments, a symbol specification unit for assigning unique user symbols, and an information provision unit to combine these symbols with comments, allowing users to attach personalized comment icons that reflect their individuality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If pre-defined stamps are used as comments, then ease of adding comments is improved, but user individuality is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines pre-defined stamps with user-specific icons to create composite comment elements. Each comment consists of a standardized stamp merged with a unique user icon, allowing easy selection while preserving user identity. This merging resolves the contradiction by integrating the benefits of both standardized templates and personalized expression.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary layer that pairs generic stamps with user-specific identifiers. The stamp serves as the base comment element, while the user icon acts as an intermediary that adds individuality without complicating the selection process. This intermediary approach maintains ease of use while preventing loss of user identity information.
2Ease of operation
If common stamps are used by all users, then comment addition becomes simple, but the effectiveness of multiple user contributions is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making each comment element unique through the combination of a common stamp with a user-specific icon. While the stamp portion remains standardized for ease of use, the user icon portion provides localized differentiation that allows viewers to distinguish contributions from different users, thereby maintaining both simplicity and effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
By merging standardized stamps with personalized user icons, the system creates composite comment elements that retain the simplicity of template-based selection while adding visual differentiation. This combination ensures that multiple user contributions remain distinguishable, enhancing the overall effectiveness of user-generated content without complicating the comment addition process.
3Loss of information
If user-specific symbols are assigned to each user, then user individuality is reflected, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-assigning unique icons to users during account creation or profile setup. This advance preparation eliminates the need for complex real-time generation or selection of user identifiers, reducing system complexity while ensuring user individuality is consistently reflected in all their comments.
Solution Approach 2:
Users can select or customize their own icons during profile setup, making the process self-service oriented. This approach reduces the burden on the system to generate and manage complex user identifiers, while still achieving the goal of reflecting user individuality through personally chosen or assigned symbols.
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AI summary
Provided is a server device that is capable of making it easy to attach comments to videos while reflecting the individuality of various users. A center server, when a user terminal is connected, delivers video data according to a request by the user terminal. The center server also specifies a stamp selected by each user among a plurality of stamps that have been prepared in advance, and, on the basis of symbol data for managing symbols that are separately set for users in order to visually identify each user, specifies the symbol of the user who has selected the stamp. The center server, when a request is made for delivery the video data, provides the user terminal with information about the stamp and the symbol so that a comment icon in which the selected stamp and the symbol of the user are combined is attached to the video.