Set-Top Box Notification System Using Segmented Preferences
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users desire improved communication capabilities with set-top boxes, including notification preferences for media content and usage information, which existing technologies have not adequately addressed.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that allows users to create notification preferences for set-top boxes, enabling notifications based on media content availability, usage patterns, and social network interactions, using a network infrastructure for communication between user devices, set-top boxes, and databases to send and receive notifications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a comprehensive notification system with multiple preferences and rules is implemented, then communication capability with set-top box is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system is segmented into multiple independent notification preferences, each handling a specific type of notification (media content, usage information, social network interactions). This allows the system to provide comprehensive communication capabilities while managing complexity through modular organization of notification handling logic.
Solution Approach 2:
A server acts as an intermediary between user devices and set-top boxes, managing notification preferences, receiving security information, and coordinating communication. This intermediary layer abstracts the complexity of the comprehensive notification system from both the user device and set-top box, enabling improved communication capability without directly increasing device complexity.
2Loss of information
If personalized notifications with multiple rules are established, then information relevance is improved, but processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Notification preferences with specific rules are established in advance before actual notifications are needed. Security information is verified beforehand, and notification criteria are pre-configured. This preliminary setup allows the system to efficiently process notifications later by simply evaluating pre-defined rules rather than making complex decisions in real-time, reducing processing requirements while maintaining high information relevance.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification system automatically evaluates incoming information against pre-established rules and generates relevant notifications without requiring continuous user intervention or complex real-time processing. The system serves itself by autonomously determining which notifications to generate based on pre-configured criteria, reducing ongoing processing requirements while maintaining personalized and relevant information delivery.
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AI summary
A method and system for communication with a set-top box is disclosed. An embodiment is disclosed that receives security information and the security information has identification information for a user assigned to a set-top box, services a request to create a notification preference for the set-top box in response to successful entry of security information, establishes the notification preference for the set-top box and the notification preference has a rule for providing information in a notification on media content available to be received by the set-top box, sends the notification to the recipient in accordance with a notification preference, receives a communication for the set-top box from a user device and the communication comprises a partial command for a set-top box, interprets the partial command in view of the notification, and sends a command to the set-top box based on the partial command and the notification.