Time-Aware Link Extraction for Dynamic Content Delivery

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing information processing devices fail to provide timely and dynamic link information related to events, as they rely on fixed relations and require user interaction to access content, limiting user engagement and satisfaction.

Innovation Solution

An information processing device and method that extracts and transmits link information from a link schedule table associated with a time axis to a terminal device, allowing users to access relevant content based on the current time, enhancing user experience and satisfaction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If fixed table information is used for identification information conversion, then the system structure is simple, but the link information cannot be updated dynamically according to time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedynamic link information provisionVSAvoidsystem structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a link schedule table that associates link information with time axes, enabling dynamic provision of link information based on current time. The extraction unit retrieves link information corresponding to the current time from the link schedule table, transforming the static identification information conversion system into a dynamic time-aware system without requiring complex restructuring of the overall architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The link schedule table is prepared in advance with multiple link information entries associated with different time periods. This preliminary preparation allows the system to quickly provide appropriate link information based on the current time without requiring real-time computation or complex decision-making processes, maintaining system simplicity while achieving adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If users access link information through browser interaction, then the system requires user initiative, but user engagement is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser engagementVSAvoiduser interaction requirement
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically provides link information to terminal devices based on the current time and registered identification information without requiring users to actively search or navigate through browsers. The transmission control unit sends link information proactively to terminal devices, enabling the system to serve users automatically and significantly increasing user engagement while reducing the operational burden on users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Loss of time

If link information is provided only when users access browsers, then the system operation is simple, but information timeliness is poor

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation timelinessVSAvoidinformation transmission mechanism
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system incorporates a time-axis-based feedback mechanism where the extraction unit continuously monitors the current time and retrieves corresponding link information from the link schedule table. This time-synchronized feedback ensures that link information is always current and relevant, providing timely information to users without requiring complex real-time communication infrastructure, as the timing logic is embedded in the information retrieval process itself.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10687102B2Information processing device, information processing method, and control device
Publication Date: 2020.06.16 SONY GROUP CORP
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AI summary

To transmit link information regarding a content in accordance with the current time to a terminal device of a user in which information that identifies a predetermined event has been registered in advance, an information processing device includes: an extraction unit configured to extract, from a link schedule table in which link information regarding a plurality of contents has been associated with individual identification information that identifies a predetermined event together with a time axis, the link information regarding a content in accordance with a current time; and a transmission control unit configured to transmit the link information regarding the content having been extracted to a terminal device in which the individual identification information has been registered.