Social Network Synchronization for TV Breaks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Television viewers often experience a disjointed viewing experience during breaks in broadcast programs as they tend to engage with unrelated mobile content, leading to a loss of viewership and an incongruous experience.
Innovation Solution
A social-networking system that synchronizes live streaming content with televised programs, predicting breaks and sending notifications to users with related content, allowing for an integrated and continuous viewing experience across platforms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users engage with mobile content during television breaks, then users can access unrelated content on mobile devices, but the viewing experience becomes disjointed and viewership is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines television content with mobile content by creating a unified content delivery system. The television broadcaster's content and the mobile device's content are merged into a single coherent viewing experience, where mobile content is specifically selected and delivered to complement the television program being watched, rather than allowing users to access unrelated content from any source.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a mobile device as an intermediary between the television broadcaster and the user. The mobile device receives content from the broadcaster and delivers it to the user in a format suitable for mobile viewing, acting as a bridge that maintains content coherence while adapting to different viewing platforms and break the siloed content delivery model.
2Ease of operation
If users switch to mobile devices during breaks, then users can surf the Web and check email, but the overall viewing experience becomes incongruous
Solution Approach 1:
The patent prepares and delivers mobile content in advance of the break period, so that when users switch to their mobile devices, the content is already available and contextually appropriate. The system anticipates break times and pre-delivers relevant content, eliminating the need for users to search for unrelated content and maintaining program context throughout the viewing experience.
3Adaptability or versatility
If television content and mobile content are delivered through separate platforms, then each platform can operate independently, but the user experience is fragmented
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal content delivery system that can operate across multiple platforms (television and mobile devices) while maintaining a unified content strategy. The same content management infrastructure serves both television and mobile delivery, allowing the system to adapt to different platforms without requiring completely separate systems, thus reducing overall complexity while maintaining platform independence.
Data Source
AI summary
In one embodiment, a method includes a computing system generating a forum for a discussion regarding a television program among a plurality of users watching the television program. The television program may be aired on a plurality of first devices. The system may provide, on a plurality of second devices of the users watching the television program, a user interface comprising the forum and one or more affinity indicators for expressing user emotions relating to the television program. The system may receive, from a second device of a user, user input indicating a comment or a user emotion relating to the television program through the one or more affinity indicators. The system may distribute in real-time the comment or the user emotion relating to the television program received from the second device of the user across other second devices of the users watching the television program.