Video Segment Highlighting for Related Content Navigation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing media streaming platforms require users to manually browse and search through multiple media content items to find relevant portions related to their interests, leading to inefficient use of network bandwidth and processing resources due to discarded irrelevant content.

Innovation Solution

Systems and methods that dynamically identify and highlight relevant portions of media content items based on keywords, allowing users to jump directly to these portions upon selection, reducing the need for manual searching and minimizing redundant content delivery.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If users manually browse through multiple media content items to find relevant portions, then users can find detailed explanations of topics they are interested in, but network bandwidth and processing resources are wasted due to delivery of irrelevant content

Engineering Contradiction:

Improverelevant content deliveryVSAvoidnetwork bandwidth and processing resources

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of media content items to generate topic summaries and identify key topics before users request content. This allows the system to pre-process and organize content metadata, so that when a user requests related content, the system can immediately provide relevant portions without requiring users to manually browse through irrelevant content, thereby preventing waste of network bandwidth and processing resources.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary layer (topic summary generation and content analysis system) between the user and the media content items. This intermediary analyzes the content, identifies key topics, and presents summarized information to users, enabling users to find relevant content efficiently without directly consuming irrelevant content, thus reducing network bandwidth and processing resource waste.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of information

If users manually browse through multiple media content items, then users can find detailed explanations of topics, but the time required to find relevant content increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improverelevant content accessibilityVSAvoidcontent search time

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If the media player provides options for related media content items, then users have access to additional relevant content, but the user interface complexity increases requiring more browsing and selection actions

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent recommendation capabilityVSAvoiduser interface complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and highlights only the most relevant portions of related media content items based on topic analysis, rather than presenting entire content items or requiring users to browse through all related content. By extracting and presenting only the relevant segments with clear topic indicators, the system reduces user interface complexity while maintaining adaptability and versatility in content recommendation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

4Loss of information

If users select and watch multiple media content items to find relevant portions, then users can find detailed explanations of topics, but the number of user interface requests and resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetopic information completenessVSAvoidsystem efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS12563260B2Dynamically generating and highlighting references to content segments in videos related to a main video that is being watched

Publication Date: 2026.02.24 ADEIA GUIDES INC

AI summary

Systems and methods are provided for identifying related media content items. First media content item is outputted on a device. A user interface input requesting media content related to the first media content item is received. Metadata is accessed for a portion of the first media content item within a predetermined time period away from a pause position of the first media content item to identify topic keyword. An offer to interrupt the first media content item to output content related to the topic keyword is displayed. In response to offer's acceptance, a portion of an identified related media content item that is associated with the identified topic keyword is identified. The portion of the identified related media content item is transmitted for display while the media content is paused. The device then resumes displaying the media content item.