Unique Identifier System for Video Content Sharing

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Solution Overview

Problem

The challenge in video streaming is the inability to properly identify and reference specific television shows, movies, or video clips, limiting users' ability to share content via messaging or social media.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a system where media players use unique identifiers to reference video content, allowing users to share viewing experiences by transmitting these identifiers across digital networks, enabling media players to locate and play back specific programs, set DVR timers, or add to watch lists.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If media streaming services provide extensive video content libraries, then content availability increases, but the ability to properly identify and reference specific programs deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent availabilityVSAvoidprogram identification capability

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the video content library into individually identifiable programs, each assigned a unique identifier. This segmentation allows the vast content library to be divided into discrete, referenceable units, resolving the contradiction between having extensive content and being able to properly identify specific programs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary identification system that mediates between the user and the extensive video content library. This intermediary layer provides unique identifiers and reference mechanisms that enable users to locate and reference specific programs within the large content collection, solving the identification problem.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If users want to share video content via messaging or social media, then user engagement increases, but the complexity of content referencing increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent sharing capabilityVSAvoidcontent referencing complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the parameter of content referencing from complex metadata descriptions to simple unique identifiers. This parameter change enables easy sharing of video content through messaging and social media, as users can reference content with compact identifiers rather than complex information, reducing sharing complexity while maintaining versatility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10091557B2Identifying and sharing video content on a digital network

Publication Date: 2018.10.02 SLING MEDIA INC

AI summary

Systems, processes and devices identify content on the Internet or another network. A media player device receives an identifier that is uniquely associated with a particular media program. The identifier is submitted from the media player device to a registry service accessible via the digital network to thereby locate the particular media program for playback by the media player device or for performing other actions, and a message containing the identifier is initiated and transmitted to a recipient media player device via the digital network to thereby allow the recipient media player device to locate the same particular media program on the digital network using the identifier.