TV Social Media Ticker Overlay for Anonymous Poll Aggregation
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a lack of a system that allows for social media interaction to be displayed on a TV screen as a ticker overlay during programming, and also collects and aggregates data from users engaged in such interactions.
Innovation Solution
A social media ticker system that overlays a ticker displaying social media interaction on TV screens, allowing users to engage in real-time interactions and polls, with anonymous input collection and aggregation on a server.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If social media interaction is displayed on TV screen as ticker overlay, then user engagement and entertainment value are improved, but system complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
A server acts as an intermediary between multiple user computing devices and TV devices, coordinating social media interactions, managing data aggregation, and synchronizing ticker displays across multiple devices. This mediator approach allows the system to handle complexity centrally while keeping individual user devices relatively simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is designed to work with multiple types of computing devices (smartphones, tablets, computers) and TV devices simultaneously, with the server providing universal coordination services. The ticker overlay functionality is implemented across different device types using consistent protocols, allowing the system to serve multiple functions through a unified architecture.
2Measurement precision
If anonymous poll data is collected and aggregated from multiple users, then data accuracy and representativeness are improved, but data processing load and server requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The server merges data from multiple user computing devices by aggregating poll responses and social media interactions into unified datasets. This combining approach allows the system to achieve representative data accuracy while consolidating processing loads on the server rather than requiring each individual device to perform complex data analysis.
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AI summary
Described is a social media ticker system. The system may include a social media server having a memory storing various data, a first user computing device coupled to the server and a first TV and a second user computing device coupled to the server and a second TV. The first and second TVs are configured to display a ticker displaying interaction between the first and second user computing devices on a social media platform engaged with a social media server while watching the same particular program on the first and second TVs respectively. Further, the server may be programmed to send a poll request corresponding to what is displayed on the first and second TVs for input from the first and second user computing devices, wherein input responsive to the poll request is anonymous and is collected and aggregated on the social media server