Video Manager Organizing Custom Channels
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current entertainment systems lack the ability to combine the continuous playback of selected channel content with the freedom to select desired online video content, as they struggle with automatically removing duplicate videos and determining when a video has finished playing to seamlessly transition to the next one.
Innovation Solution
A video manager and organizer system that enables users to create custom channels with continuous playback, automatically removing duplicates and determining video completion by monitoring play button status changes, while also allowing dynamic or static channel updates and integrating search functionality with tag discovery and user behavior analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If automatic duplicate removal is implemented to eliminate substantially similar videos, then video quality and user experience are improved, but system complexity increases due to the need for content similarity analysis
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces complex content analysis mechanisms with a simpler metadata-based identification system. Instead of analyzing video content similarity through sophisticated algorithms, the system uses metadata tags and user-generated identifiers to detect and remove duplicate videos, significantly reducing system complexity while maintaining reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates simplified representations (copies) of video content through metadata extraction. Rather than analyzing actual video content, the system works with copied information in the form of tags, titles, and descriptors, which enables duplicate detection without requiring complex content analysis infrastructure.
2Ease of operation
If continuous playback monitoring is implemented to detect when videos finish playing, then seamless video transitions are achieved, but use of energy increases due to constant play button status monitoring
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism that monitors play button status changes to detect video completion. The system continuously observes the playback state and triggers the next video automatically when the play button transitions from active to inactive, enabling seamless transitions through intelligent feedback rather than constant energy-intensive monitoring.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of continuous monitoring, the system uses periodic checks of the play button status. The monitoring occurs at relevant intervals (when playback state changes) rather than continuously, reducing energy consumption while maintaining the ability to detect video completion and initiate seamless transitions.
3Adaptability or versatility
If dynamic channel updates are implemented to automatically add new videos from search results, then content freshness is improved, but loss of time increases due to ongoing search and traversal operations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary actions by pre-traversing web pages and pre-tagging videos during idle periods or when channels are being created. This advance preparation stores video metadata and relationships in advance, so when new content needs to be added to dynamic channels, the system can quickly retrieve and add pre-processed content rather than performing time-consuming search operations at the moment of update.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements dynamic channel updates that adapt to user behavior and content availability. Rather than continuously searching for new videos, the system dynamically adjusts its update frequency and triggers searches based on user interaction patterns, channel popularity, and available bandwidth, optimizing the balance between content freshness and time consumption.
Data Source
AI summary
An online video search system, including a tag discoverer including a web encyclopedia crawler for (i) accessing a web encyclopedia to find web pages related to at least one designated reference topic, and (ii) retrieving a plurality of web pages by performing an n-level depth recursive traversal of the web pages found, and web pages that are hyper-linked thereto, a concept extractor for extracting important concepts founds in the retrieved plurality of web pages, and a user interface for providing at least of the important concepts extracted by the web page processor to an online video search engine. A method and a computer-readable storage medium are also described and claimed.