Tag Management System for Video Content Retrieval
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic program guides for television viewing are cumbersome for users to select or recall specific programs, lacking an efficient method for tagging and retrieving video content.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that involves a set-top box device and a tag management system communicating via a private video distribution network, allowing users to tag video content and request associated content using tags, which can be stored and retrieved through a graphical user interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If electronic program guides are used to select or recall programs, then program selection capability is provided, but the system becomes cumbersome and difficult to operate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential identifying information (tags) from video content and separates it from the full content delivery system. Users interact with simple tag-based identifiers rather than navigating complex program guides, thereby reducing operational complexity while maintaining program selection capability.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of requiring users to search through program guides to find content, the system inverts the approach by allowing users to directly input or select tags that identify content. This reverses the traditional navigation paradigm and significantly simplifies the user interaction model.
2Productivity
If tags are stored and managed centrally, then content retrieval efficiency is improved, but system infrastructure complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The tag management system is designed to serve multiple functions: storing tags, managing associations between tags and content, facilitating user interactions, and enabling content delivery. This multi-functionality consolidates what could be separate complex systems into a single unified platform, improving retrieval efficiency without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for determining a tag based on an interaction of a mobile device with a media processor. The tag is associated with a number of options of video content received at the media processor. A request is determined from the media processor for the number of options of video content associated with the tag. A transfer of the plurality of options of video content is initiated from a video source to the media processor. Other embodiments are disclosed.