Universal Bookmarking via Standardized Data Structures
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is no generalized mechanism for maintaining notes or bookmarks about digital content across different systems, platforms, and locations, and no universal electronic mechanism for bookmarking or flagging physical objects in various environments.
Innovation Solution
The system allows users to mark digital content and physical objects using standardized data structures, which are stored in a central data store, enabling access to marked content from any device or location, across various platforms and operating systems, through a content guide.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If digital content is delivered across multiple platforms and systems, then content availability and accessibility are improved, but the ability to maintain consistent bookmarks and notes across different systems deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal bookmarking system that functions across multiple digital platforms and systems. By creating a standardized data structure that can be universally interpreted by different systems, the patent enables bookmark consistency to be maintained while content is delivered across diverse platforms including set-top boxes, mobile devices, and computers.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary standardized data structure that acts as a mediator between different digital systems and platforms. This intermediate layer translates and standardizes bookmark information from various source formats into a universal format that can be consistently stored and retrieved across different systems, preventing information loss.
2Reliability
If a universal bookmarking mechanism is implemented across all systems, then information consistency is improved, but system complexity and integration requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by transforming bookmark data into a standardized format with specific parameters and fields. This standardization allows different systems to interpret and process bookmark information consistently without requiring complex custom integration logic for each system pairing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the bookmarking function into independent, standardized data structures that can be processed separately by different systems. This segmentation allows each system to handle bookmarks independently using the same standard format, reducing the complexity of inter-system integration while maintaining information consistency.
3Ease of operation
If physical objects are marked and tracked, then user interaction with physical-digital content is improved, but the complexity of tracking and managing physical object data increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a digital copy or representation of physical objects through standardized data structures. When a user marks a physical object, the system creates a standardized digital record that mirrors the physical object's identity and attributes, enabling easy tracking and interaction without managing the complexity of physical object data directly.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary standardized data structure that mediates between physical objects and the digital tracking system. This intermediate layer simplifies the management of physical object data by translating physical object attributes into a standardized digital format that can be consistently processed and stored.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for self-targeted content delivery are provided. Content objects can be delivered to a user and indications from the user to mark any content object can be received thereby generating standard data structures to be placed into a central data store. At a later time, on various other systems, a content guide may be provided to the user showing the content related to the standard data structures placed in the central store. The user may mark digital content as it is encountered via television, internet, mobile devices, automobile terminals, public terminals, kiosks, or otherwise. Standardized data structures can allow the marking to operate across platforms, operating systems, hardware, and delivery modes. Content guides created from data structures associated with marked content can allow the marked content to be recalled and accessed from any of various other systems at a later time.