Unified Video Navigation via Search Guide Application
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing video service systems lack integration of advanced web-based searching capabilities with non-Web-based content delivery mechanisms, limiting users' ability to seamlessly access and navigate video content across different platforms and sources.
Innovation Solution
A video navigation system that utilizes a secondary device with a search guide application to interface with a primary device, enabling users to search and command video services based on program moments, with metadata-driven commands that facilitate access to specific video segments across OTT and non-OTT content sources, using IP and non-IP signaling mechanisms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If web-based searching capabilities are used to access video content, then content discovery and searching efficiency are improved, but compatibility with non-Web-based content delivery mechanisms deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a search guide application as an intermediary layer between the user interface and multiple content delivery mechanisms. This application receives user search queries and translates them into appropriate commands for different delivery systems (Web-based OTT, non-Web-based cable/satellite, local DVR), enabling unified searching across heterogeneous platforms without requiring separate interfaces for each delivery mechanism
Solution Approach 2:
The search guide application is designed with multi-functionality to handle diverse content delivery mechanisms through a single unified interface. It can process search queries for OTT content, traditional cable/satellite content, and local DVR recordings, translating diverse delivery protocols into standardized search operations, thereby providing universal access across different platform types
2Ease of operation
If a unified interface for searching is implemented across OTT and non-OTT content, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex system into distinct functional modules: a user interface layer for simplified searching, a search guide application layer for command translation and coordination, and underlying delivery mechanism layers for content provision. This segmentation allows the complex integration logic to be isolated in the middle layer without affecting user interface simplicity or requiring changes to existing delivery systems
3Measurement precision
If metadata-driven commands are used to access specific video segments, then navigation precision is improved, but information processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-generating and storing metadata (such as program moments, chapter markers, and segment descriptors) during content ingestion and indexing. When users search for specific video segments, the search guide application queries this pre-processed metadata to quickly identify target segments, avoiding the need to analyze entire video files and thereby reducing real-time information processing requirements while maintaining high navigation precision
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AI summary
The navigation of video and other types of content based on program moments and/or key content is contemplated. The contemplated navigation may be beneficial in facilitating use of key parameters to enhance user experience and navigation when performed through a video device, a set top box (STB), a digital video recorder (DVR), a Web service or other video accessing service/device.