Shared Audiovisual Menu System for Multi-User Content Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
In shared audiovisual receiver environments, users lack a user-friendly interface to access and manage paid audiovisual content, leading to potential duplicate purchases and unawareness of available programs, as individual users' acquisitions are not communicated.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for generating a menu that displays all available audiovisual content accessible by a digital network, including user-specific information, payment options, and content availability, allowing multiple users to view and manage shared content, with features like content association with user identity, ordered lists, and server-managed availability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple users independently acquire replay rights without communication, then each user can access purchased content, but users become unaware of available programs and may make duplicate purchases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments content availability information by user, organizing the menu into distinct sections showing which contents are available to each user. This segmentation allows comprehensive information display while maintaining clear organization, resolving the contradiction between providing complete availability information and maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The receiver acts as an intermediary that collects and consolidates content availability information from multiple users, then presents this aggregated information through a unified menu interface. This intermediary function enables users to see all available contents without direct communication between users, preventing duplicate purchases while maintaining simple operation.
2Loss of information
If a unified menu displays all available content from multiple users, then users gain awareness of shared content, but the interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The unified menu is segmented into user-specific sections, each displaying contents available to that user. This segmentation approach allows the system to present comprehensive content availability information while maintaining a structured, manageable interface that doesn't overwhelm users with undifferentiated complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The menu system is designed with universal structure that can accommodate multiple users and their respective content libraries. The same interface framework serves all users, providing consistent functionality while adapting to display different content sets, thereby reducing overall system complexity through reuse of proven interface patterns.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the receiver stores multiple users' paid contents, then all users can access their purchased programs, but memory management becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The receiver's storage system is segmented into user-specific content libraries, with each user's paid contents stored in separate, identifiable sections. This segmentation enables the system to manage multiple users' content with different availability periods and payment statuses, providing adaptability while keeping memory management organized and tractable through clear separation of user data.
Data Source
AI summary
A method is provided for generating a presentation menu for presenting audio and audiovisual contents on the screen of a receiver, which are downloadable from a broadcasting network or from dedicated sites. A user selects accessible contents and makes payment to make these contents available at the receiver. The receiver retrieves information on availability of all the contents from the receiver and requests display of a presentation menu presenting a list of available contents. Thus each user gets to know all the available contents from the receiver, including those purchased by other users. The presentation menu can visually associate each document with the identity of the user who made the document available. The presentation menu can display an indication that the replay of an available content has already begun and has been interrupted at a certain point in time. This point in time is made available at the display.