Video Content Search via IP Geolocation and Time
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulty in finding and accessing video content across various platforms due to the vast and fragmented nature of video content distribution, including broadcast TV, VOD, and internet downloads, with existing solutions often lacking real-time, location-specific information and integration with third-party websites.
Innovation Solution
LocateTV provides an internet-based service that allows users to search for video content based on their geographic location and time, offering personalized results and enabling embedding of up-to-date content information on third-party web pages, using IP address geolocation and database-driven metadata aggregation from multiple sources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If video content is distributed across multiple platforms (broadcast TV, VOD, internet downloads), then the quantity and variety of content increases, but the difficulty of finding and accessing specific content increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple content distribution platforms (broadcast TV, VOD, internet downloads) into a unified search interface. The system aggregates content metadata from diverse sources and presents them through a single search portal, allowing users to access content across all platforms without needing separate access points for each source.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a metadata aggregation system that acts as an intermediary between content providers and users. This intermediary layer collects, standardizes, and indexes content information from multiple platforms, enabling efficient searching and access without requiring direct integration with each individual content source.
2Adaptability or versatility
If existing solutions provide general video content information, then coverage is broad, but real-time, location-specific information is lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enhances general content information with location-specific details by detecting the user's geographic location and filtering/searching content based on regional availability. The system provides customized results that reflect what content is actually accessible in the user's specific location, rather than providing uniform global content listings.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic content information that updates in real-time based on user location, time, and platform availability. The system continuously adapts search results to reflect current content availability across different platforms and regions, ensuring users receive accurate, up-to-date information about what they can actually access.
3Ease of operation
If manual search methods are used for video content, then user control is high, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary actions by automatically detecting user location, preferences, and available platforms before the user initiates a search. The system pre-processes and filters content based on these parameters, so when users conduct searches, they immediately receive relevant results without needing to manually configure search parameters or navigate through unavailable content.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms that learn from user search behavior and preferences over time. The system analyzes search patterns and automatically adjusts search parameters, ranking, and filtering to better match user needs, reducing the time required to locate desired content while maintaining user control over search outcomes.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of providing information about video content to a client is disclosed. The method includes: receiving a request from a client requesting information about video content, the request including an internet protocol address of the client; establishing (a) a geographic location of the client from the internet protocol address; and (b) a time of the request; identifying one or more content providers available in the geographic location; in dependence on the one or more content providers and the time, retrieving information about the video content from a database; and providing the information to the client. Related apparatus and methods are also disclosed.