Hierarchical Transmedia Content Rendering on Mobile Devices
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for managing and visualizing transmedia content struggle to effectively organize, share, and render large quantities of multimedia data in real-time, especially on lower-power devices like smartphones, and fail to provide adequate tools for predicting trends and resonating with audiences, making it difficult to create and consume structured groups of linked content.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method for rendering and interacting with transmedia content on electronic devices, which involves receiving transmedia content data, linking data, and a visualization model to create a hierarchical structure, allowing users to zoom in and out, and rendering representations that map transmedia content onto a three-dimensional object for easy navigation and interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If large quantities of transmedia content data are visualized on a display, then information completeness is improved, but device complexity and processing power requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The transmedia content data is segmented into multiple hierarchical levels (e.g., individual content items, groups, collections, namespaces). Each level can be independently processed and rendered, allowing the system to manage large quantities of data without overwhelming the device. Users can navigate through these segments at different granularities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a hierarchical dimension to organize transmedia content data, transforming a flat, overwhelming dataset into a multi-layered structure. This hierarchical organization allows the system to process and visualize data at appropriate levels of abstraction, reducing the effective complexity at any given moment while preserving access to the complete dataset.
2Ease of operation
If real-time visual feedback is provided for exploring transmedia content, then user interaction responsiveness is improved, but processing speed requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and organizing transmedia content data into hierarchical structures before user interaction. Metadata, relationships, and navigation paths are established in advance, enabling rapid rendering and real-time visual feedback when users explore the content without requiring intensive processing during interaction.
3Stability of the object's composition
If transmedia content from different users and types is grouped in a time-ordered manner, then content organization is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal hierarchical data structure that can accommodate transmedia content from different users and content types within a single organized framework. This multi-functional structure handles diverse content (videos, images, text, audio) and user-generated groups simultaneously through standardized relationships and time-ordered arrangements, reducing the need for separate processing systems.
Data Source
AI summary
A method is provided for rendering a representation of and interacting with transmedia content on an electronic device. Transmedia content data is received at the electronic device. The transmedia content data comprises: a plurality of transmedia content data items; linking data which define time-ordered content links between the plurality of transmedia content data items, whereby the plurality of transmedia content data items are arranged into linked transmedia content subsets comprising different groups of the transmedia content data items and different content links therebetween; a visualization model of the transmedia content data; and a hierarchical structure of the linked transmedia content subsets and clusters of linked transmedia content subsets. A representation of the transmedia content data is rendered at the electronic device by processing the visualization model of the transmedia content data and the hierarchical structure to map some or all of the transmedia content at a first level of the hierarchical structure onto the representation of the transmedia content.