Two-Dimensional Grid for Electronic Media Content Organization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional electronic programming guides (EPGs) are inadequate for displaying and recommending electronic media content on the Internet, as they fail to convey additional information or suggest content to users, leading to users viewing undesirable content and decreased advertising revenue.
Innovation Solution
A computerized system and method for organizing and displaying electronic media content using a two-dimensional grid, where content groups are ranked along one axis and individual content items are ranked within each group along the other axis, based on user preferences and collaborative filtering algorithms, to provide a more informative and relevant content recommendation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional one-dimensional content listing is used, then implementation is simple, but user engagement and content relevance deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the traditional one-dimensional content list into a two-dimensional grid layout where one axis represents content categories and the other axis represents time or sequence. This dimensional expansion allows users to simultaneously view multiple content options across different categories and time periods, significantly improving content discoverability and user engagement while maintaining implementation feasibility through standard web technologies.
2Device complexity
If traditional one-dimensional content listing is used, then system complexity is low, but information conveyance and content recommendation quality deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
By organizing content in a two-dimensional grid with categories on one axis and time/sequence on the other, the system conveys substantially more information about available content without proportionally increasing complexity. Users can see content organization structure, temporal relationships, and category distributions simultaneously, reducing information loss while keeping the underlying data structure manageable.
Solution Approach 2:
The content collection is segmented into distinct categories along one axis of the grid, allowing users to easily navigate and filter content by topic or type. This segmentation organizes large volumes of content into manageable, browsable sections, improving information conveyance while maintaining system simplicity through modular content classification.
3Use of energy by moving object
If users browse content without recommendations, then system resource consumption is low, but content relevance and user satisfaction deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary content analysis and organization into categorized grids before user interaction, pre-computing content relationships and structures. This preliminary action enables immediate display of relevant content without requiring intensive real-time processing during user browsing, maintaining low resource consumption while improving content relevance through pre-organized recommendations.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are disclosed for displaying available or recommended electronic multimedia content to a user, including electronic media content on the Internet. According to one implementation, a method is provided that includes receiving a request from a user, the request specifying electronic media content desired by the user; analyzing an indexed web history of a plurality of other users, based on the request for desired content; and selecting and sorting a subset of available content groups, based on the request for desired content and the indexed web history. The method also includes selecting and sorting, for each selected and sorted content group, a subset of available content; providing instructions to display, to a user, the selected and sorted content groups along a first axis of a two-dimensional grid; and further providing instructions to display, to the user, the selected available content for each content group along a second axis of the two-dimensional grid.