User Profile Management System for Television Services
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing user management systems for personalized television and blended media services are difficult to implement in telecommunications and cable environments, fail to accommodate various user relationships, and lack flexibility in user profile creation and management, especially across multiple devices and services.
Innovation Solution
A user lifecycle management system that allows multiple methods for user enrollment based on context, enables simultaneous use of multiple devices for profile creation, and provides identity federation for seamless access to various services, with administrative interfaces for managing user hierarchies and privacy settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional user management systems are used in television and blended media services, then user profiles can be created for personalization, but the systems are difficult to incorporate into existing telecommunication and cable environments and fail to accommodate various user relationships
Solution Approach 1:
The user management system is designed to function across multiple environments including telecommunication, cable, and internet-based services. The system provides universal user profile management that works across different service types and delivery mechanisms, allowing a single system to serve multiple functions and environments without requiring separate management systems for each platform.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adapts to different user relationships and household compositions. It automatically adjusts user hierarchy structures based on detected relationships between users, such as identifying primary users, secondary users, and household members. The system can modify its behavior and interface based on the specific context of each enrollment scenario, making it flexible rather than rigid.
2Ease of operation
If multiple user profiles are created for household members, then personalized recommendations and preferences can be generated, but the enrollment process becomes complex and requires extensive user input
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically detecting user relationships and pre-populating profile information before the user completes enrollment. It uses available data from the service environment to automatically create initial user hierarchy structures, pre-fill user profiles with detected household member information, and prepare enrollment contexts in advance, reducing the manual input required from users.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service enrollment where users can create their own profiles with minimal intervention. The system automatically processes user enrollment by detecting relationships between users, automatically creating appropriate user hierarchy structures, and configuring profiles based on detected household compositions without requiring extensive manual configuration or administrator intervention.
3Reliability
If administrative controls are implemented for managing user profiles, then security and privacy settings can be maintained, but the system requires additional administrative interfaces and user management overhead
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary administrative layer that mediates between users and the underlying complex security and privacy controls. This intermediary layer provides simplified administrative interfaces that automatically handle complex security policies, privacy settings, and user hierarchy management. The intermediary translates simple administrative actions into complex security configurations, shielding users and administrators from complexity while maintaining strong security and privacy protections.
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AI summary
There is provided a method of allowing members of a television viewing household to create individual user profiles using a plurality of input devices, the method comprising: determining the context of a user enrollment session; using the context to adapt a user enrollment to minimize operations required to complete an enrollment of the user; and generating a user hierarchy based on relationships between a plurality of user profiles according to a relationship with a television distributor and relationships between the plurality of user profiles. There is also provided a method of allowing television (TV) distributor administrators to manage user profiles and user settings, the method comprising: enabling creation of at least one administrative user; enabling the at least one administrative user to perform at least one of managing, creating, and viewing user profiles created for TV viewing households according to an administrative level assigned to the at least one administrative user; and enabling the at least one administrative user to configure settings related to an enrollment of a user.