User Interface Synchronizing Advertisements with Viewership Data

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing advertising systems lack the ability to effectively analyze viewer reactions to advertisements, as advertisers cannot accurately gauge audience feedback, leading to inefficient advertising strategies.

Innovation Solution

A user interface system that synchronizes advertisements with viewership activity data, allowing real-time analysis of viewer reactions, filtered by demographic, economic, or geographic attributes, enabling advertisers to optimize future campaigns.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If advertisements are broadcast to all viewers of a show, then the advertisement reaches a wide audience, but the advertiser cannot effectively understand how the audience received the advertisement

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertising reachVSAvoidaudience feedback information
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by capturing viewership activity data from client devices during advertisement playback and presenting this data back to the advertiser through a user interface. This allows the advertiser to see real-time audience reactions and comprehension levels, transforming the one-way broadcast into an informed iterative process where advertising strategy can be adjusted based on actual audience response.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If detailed viewership activity data is captured and presented to advertisers, then advertising effectiveness can be improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertising effectivenessVSAvoiduser interface system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The server acts as an intermediary that collects raw viewership activity data from multiple client devices, processes this data, and presents it in a simplified format through the user interface. This intermediary layer shields the advertiser from the complexity of data collection and processing while delivering actionable insights, thereby maintaining advertising effectiveness without requiring the advertiser to manage complex systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Loss of energy

If advertisements are delivered to client devices with content, then content delivery cost is reduced, but the advertiser loses control over advertisement presentation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent delivery costVSAvoidadvertisement presentation control
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables dynamic control of advertisement presentation by allowing the advertiser to specify presentation parameters (such as timing, duration, and contextual conditions) that are processed by the server. The server then dynamically adjusts the delivery and presentation of advertisements to client devices based on these parameters and real-time viewership data, maintaining both cost efficiency and advertiser control through flexible, adaptive delivery mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS9288536B2Method and apparatus for using viewership activity data to customize a user interface
Publication Date: 2016.03.15 VECIMA NETWORKS INC
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AI summary

A method (300) and system (100,200) for customizing a user interface (122) on a display or consumption device (121) is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes delivering, with a control circuit (210), an advertisement (114) to a plurality of client devices (106,107,108). A channel collector device 113 can then capture viewership activity data (116,117,118) occurring during playout of the advertisement. The method then modifies a presentation characteristic of the user interface by presenting a playback (501) comprising both the advertisement and at least some of the viewership activity data in synchrony.