Story Server Referent Association for Narrative Exploration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of narratives such as books, movies, and audio books cannot easily explore or discover similar stories based on specific elements they enjoy, such as characters, time periods, or subject matter, due to the lack of a systematic way to associate and navigate between stories and their referents.
Innovation Solution
A story server system that enables users to associate points in one story with referents and automatically connects these associations to corresponding points in other versions or related stories, using a position map to facilitate navigation and exploration based on selected referents.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If no systematic association system is implemented, then the system remains simple, but users cannot efficiently explore or discover similar stories based on specific elements they enjoy
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments stories into discrete referents (characters, themes, subject matter, events, time periods, locations) that can be independently associated and navigated. This allows users to explore stories based on specific elements they enjoy without requiring a complex overall system structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary association system that connects stories through shared referents. This intermediary layer enables efficient story discovery by mediating between user interests and available content without requiring direct complex interactions between all story elements.
2Productivity
If manual tracking of story references is used, then the system remains simple to implement, but users cannot quickly learn of similar stories based on aspects they enjoyed
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-associating stories with their referents (characters, themes, events, etc.) before user queries. This pre-processing enables rapid retrieval and recommendation of similar stories based on user interests without requiring time-consuming manual tracking during user interaction.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates copies of referent associations across multiple stories, allowing a single referent (e.g., a character or theme) to link numerous related stories. This copying mechanism enables efficient discovery of similar stories by replicating referent-story connections across the database.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for displaying relationships between stories. In some embodiments, a plurality of referents that are each related to a first story may be caused to be displayed, where a referent is at least one of an event, a character, an object, a subject, a time, a place and a person. A user may be enabled to select one of the plurality of referents in order to view identification information identifying at least one other story, where the other story is also associated with the selected referent. In response to user selection of one of the plurality of referents, identification information identifying the at least one other story that is associated with the selected referent may be caused to be displayed.