Spoiler Suppression System for Media Content

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users accessing the internet may encounter information about media content they have not previously accessed, which can be irrelevant or spoil their experience by revealing unexperienced portions of the media, leading to a lack of enjoyment.

Innovation Solution

A system that generates spoiler data from media content using natural language processing, speech-to-text processing, and image recognition, and compares it with user-specific content consumption data to suppress or modify network content on user devices, ensuring that only relevant information is displayed, preventing spoilers from being shown to users who have not accessed the corresponding media portions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If network content is provided to users without filtering, then information availability is improved, but user experience deteriorates due to spoilers

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation availabilityVSAvoidspoilers

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and identifies spoiler content from network content by analyzing media content portions and comparing them with user consumption history. Spoiler elements are separated from legitimate content, allowing the system to filter only the harmful portions while preserving useful information.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The content filtering is applied locally to specific portions of media content rather than entirely blocking all network content. The system analyzes individual media portions and applies different quality levels - allowing access to non-spoiler content while blocking only the spoiler portions that would harm user experience.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Object-affected harmful factors

If content is filtered based on user consumption history, then user experience is improved by preventing spoilers, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvespoiler preventionVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of media content portions and user consumption history before content is delivered to the user. By pre-identifying which content portions are likely to be spoilers based on consumption patterns, the system can prepare filtered content in advance, reducing real-time processing complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary content analysis layer that sits between network content sources and user devices. This intermediary component handles the complex tasks of media content analysis, spoiler identification, and filtering, simplifying the overall system architecture by centralizing complexity in a dedicated module.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS10417272B1System for suppressing output of content based on media access

Publication Date: 2019.09.17 AMAZON TECH INC

AI summary

Described are techniques for outputting or suppressing output of network content to a user device based on content previously accessed by the user device. Correspondence between network content accessed by the user device and spoiler data determined from media content may indicate that the network content is associated with the media content. Content consumption data associated with the user device may indicate whether the user device has previously accessed the media content. The network content may be suppressed from output if the user device has not previously accessed the media content. The network content may be output to the user device if the media content has been accessed.