Template-Based Content Rendering for Set-Top Boxes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current streaming services require specialized servers and are inconvenient to customize or change once approved, limiting flexibility in content delivery and user experience.
Innovation Solution
A template-based system where media player devices use standardized and customized templates to render content, allowing content providers to customize their offerings without complex management or configuration processes, by parsing and executing template-based applications with standard and customized libraries.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If specialized servers and approved software are used for content streaming, then content delivery reliability is improved, but software customization flexibility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The software is segmented into a standardized core component (approved by device provider) and a customizable template component (provided by content provider). The template is parsed and executed within the constrained environment, allowing customization without modifying the approved core software.
Solution Approach 2:
A template-based intermediary layer is introduced between the approved software and the content delivery process. This template acts as a mediator that enables customization while operating within the constraints of the approved software environment.
2Ease of operation
If standardized templates are used for content rendering, then ease of customization is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of modifying the core software, the system uses template copying where standardized patterns are replicated and adapted for different content types. The template engine copies and instantiates rendering patterns without altering the underlying approved software structure.
3Productivity
If template-based rendering is implemented, then content delivery efficiency is improved, but processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Rendering templates are prepared and validated in advance during the approval process. This preliminary action ensures that templates are optimized and ready for efficient execution, reducing processing requirements during actual content delivery.
Data Source
AI summary
According to some embodiments, an application launcher of a media player device launches an application bundle, the application bundle including a binary code. In response, a first server is accessed based on a universal resource locator (URL) specified by the application bundle to download an executable script. The executable script is parsed to configure a script runtime environment based on a predetermined template associated with the executable script. A first application programming interface (API) and a second API are enabled, where the first API is used to access a predetermined library maintained by the media player device and the second API is used to communicate with the binary code. The executable script is executed within the script runtime environment to render content, including rendering standard content by invoking the predetermined library via the first API and rendering customized content by invoking the binary code via the second API.