Video Recording Reservation with Social Media URL Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods do not effectively support users in viewing electronic content by integrating video recording reservation capabilities with social networking services, limiting the ease with which users can reserve and share video recordings of programs with others.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that allows users to reserve video recordings and post comments with a uniform resource locator (URL) on a microblog site, enabling other users to select the URL and access the reserved video recording reservation screen on a webpage, facilitating easy reservation and sharing of video recordings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If video recording reservation functionality is integrated with social networking services, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines video recording reservation functionality with social networking service functionality into a single integrated system. The comment posting section incorporates both comment posting and video recording reservation capabilities, allowing users to perform multiple operations through a unified interface without needing separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The information processing apparatus is designed to perform multiple functions: posting comments, reserving video recordings, and sharing both activities through the social networking service. This multi-functional design allows a single system to handle diverse user needs for content consumption and sharing.
2Ease of operation
If uniform resource locator is attached to comment, then ease of operation is improved, but loss of information increases
Solution Approach 1:
The uniform resource locator acts as an intermediary element that bridges the comment and the video recording reservation functionality. When users click on the URL in the comment, it serves as a mediator to redirect them to the video recording reservation screen, providing easy access without exposing unnecessary system complexity in the comment itself.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes: a video recording reserving section configured to reserve video recording of a program in response to an operation performed by a user; and a comment posting section configured to post a comment on a predetermined website offering a predetermined webpage, the comment being supplemented with a uniform resource locator (URL) indicative of the program of which the video recording has been reserved on the information processing apparatus, the URL causing a video recording reservation screen for the program to be displayed when selected on a screen of the predetermined webpage displayed on another apparatus.