Personalized Video Bookmarking via Viewing Behavior Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulty in efficiently finding interesting parts of video content, such as action scenes in movies, due to the lack of personalized navigation features in existing content delivery systems.

Innovation Solution

A system that generates personalized bookmarks for video content based on a user's past viewing behavior and similar user behaviors, including social relationships, to predict and direct the user to specific points of interest within the content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If traditional content delivery systems are used without personalized navigation features, then the system complexity remains low, but users experience difficulty in efficiently finding interesting parts of video content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser navigation efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of user viewing behavior history and generates predicted bookmarks before the user actually needs to navigate to those locations. By pre-processing viewing patterns and marking predicted points of interest in advance, the system enables rapid navigation without requiring complex real-time analysis during user interaction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically generates personalized bookmarks by analyzing the user's own viewing behavior history without requiring manual input or configuration from the user. The system serves itself by autonomously learning user preferences and generating navigation suggestions, reducing the operational burden on users while maintaining high navigation efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Productivity

If personalized bookmarks are generated based on user viewing behavior and social relationships, then user engagement and satisfaction improve, but the data processing and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser engagement efficiencyVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses a unified data processing framework that handles multiple data sources (user viewing behavior, social relationships, content metadata) through a single integrated algorithm. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise be separate processing pipelines, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive personalized bookmark generation capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback loops where user interactions with generated bookmarks are monitored and fed back into the viewing behavior analysis. This feedback mechanism continuously refines the prediction models, improving accuracy over time while using the same computational resources, thereby increasing productivity without proportionally increasing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS8898259B2Bookmarking system
Publication Date: 2014.11.25 VERIZON PATENT & LICENSING INC
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AI summary

A server is configured to receive a request for content from a user of a user device. The server is configured further to obtain a group of bookmarks for the content, the group of bookmarks being obtained based on at least one of viewing behavior of the user or viewing behavior of another user. The server is configured further to provide the content and the group of bookmarks to the user.