Social Network Content Identifier Embedding for Action Triggering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional audio signal identification schemes only allow content providers to present descriptive information about audio signals and do not enable additional functionalities, limiting their ability to supplement identification information with actions or further data dissemination.
Innovation Solution
A content source associates metadata with its content, including actions to be performed by a social networking system, which generates a unique content identifier; this identifier is embedded into the content and used to trigger specific actions when received by a client device, enabling functionalities like executing applications, storing data, or communicating information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional audio fingerprinting schemes are used, then audio signal identification is achieved, but additional functionalities and actions cannot be performed
Solution Approach 1:
The audio fingerprint is extended to include multiple types of information beyond just identification. The fingerprint now contains both the audio signal identifier and additional data structures that enable various actions (presenting information, communicating with content providers, performing searches). This allows a single fingerprinting system to serve multiple functions simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The audio fingerprint data structure is segmented into distinct components: the core audio signal identification data and separate action information structures. This segmentation allows the system to process identification and actions independently while maintaining the ability to trigger multiple functions from a single fingerprint match.
2Loss of information
If audio fingerprints only contain identification information, then the system remains simple, but content providers cannot supplement identification with additional actions or data dissemination
Solution Approach 1:
Action information is prepared and attached to the audio fingerprint in advance, during the fingerprinting process itself. This preliminary action ensures that when an audio signal is identified, the associated actions are already available and can be executed immediately without requiring additional data retrieval or processing steps.
Solution Approach 2:
The action information structures are nested within the audio fingerprint data structure. The fingerprint contains identification data at the core level, with action information embedded as nested data structures. This nesting allows comprehensive information storage while maintaining a hierarchical organization that simplifies processing.
Data Source
AI summary
A content source provides metadata associated with content, such as an audio signal or video data, to a social networking system. The metadata identifies characteristics of the content or specifies an action for the social networking system to perform. A content identifier associated with the metadata is generated by the social networking system, and an association between the content identifier and the metadata is stored. The content identifier is provided to the content source, which encodes the content identifier into the content (e.g., as a watermark). When a client device receives the content encoded with the content identifier, the content identifier is extracted and communicated to the social networking system in connection with a user account associated with the client device. Based on the content identifier, the social networking system retrieves the corresponding metadata and performs an action in connection with the user account based on the metadata.