Single Button Selection for Supplemental Content in Streaming Networks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inconvenience when trying to access related content while viewing streaming content, as they need to search for it later on another device, missing the opportunity to consume it promptly.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that facilitate single button selection within a communications network to allow users to interact with supplemental content items during multimedia content streams, enabling actions like purchasing or obtaining more information without leaving the current content, through a network device that transmits both main and supplemental content items concurrently, and handles user interactions for acceptance, denial, or delivery of these items.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If users search for related content on another device after viewing streaming content, then they can access the content, but they lose time and may miss the opportunity to consume the content promptly
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-fetching and buffering related content (metadata, additional video content, audio content) before the user explicitly requests it. When a user interacts with a supplement indicator during content playback, the requested content is already available in the buffer, enabling immediate delivery without search or loading delays
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary mechanism (supplement indicator and content buffer) between the streaming content and related content. The supplement indicator embedded in the content stream serves as a mediator that triggers content delivery, while the buffer acts as an intermediary storage layer that decouples the content request from the content source, enabling seamless transitions
2Ease of operation
If users leave the current content to search for related content on another device, then they can find the content, but they interrupt their viewing experience and lose context
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the related content delivery with the main content playback by delivering supplemental content through the same communication channel and device. Users can access related content (additional video, audio, metadata) without switching devices or applications, maintaining their viewing context while accessing supplementary material
Solution Approach 2:
The system adds another dimension to content consumption by allowing users to access related content in parallel with main content playback. Through supplement indicators and buffered content, users can explore additional content layers without leaving the primary viewing experience, creating a multi-dimensional content access model
Data Source
AI summary
Single button selection to facilitate actions in a communications network are provided herein. In one embodiment, a method can comprise facilitating, by a network device of a wireless network and comprising a processor, a first transmission of a multimedia content stream to a communications device. The multimedia content stream can comprise a main content item and a supplemental content item that supplements the main content item. The method can also include in response to a request from the communications device for additional information related to the supplemental content item, facilitating, by the network device, a second transmission, to the communications device, of data that comprises the additional information. Based on an indication, received from the communications device, of an acceptance of the data related to the supplemental content item, the method can include facilitating, by the network device, an action related to the supplemental content item.