Real-Time Viewer Rating Aggregation via Server Mediator
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing viewer rating services lack real-time feedback and accuracy in detecting viewer patterns due to reliance on outdated statistical analysis and limited terminal apparatus surveys, making it difficult for users to find popular broadcast programs in a multi-channel era.
Innovation Solution
A user terminal apparatus and server system that collects and processes real-time viewing information from all apparatuses to provide accurate viewer ratings and pattern information, allowing users to easily find popular channels and receive notifications about rating changes and recommended content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If real-time viewer rating information is collected from all terminal apparatuses, then measurement precision and reliability are improved, but device complexity and communication overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
A server acts as an intermediary between multiple terminal apparatuses and users. The server collects viewing information from all terminals, aggregates viewer ratings, and provides processed information back to users. This mediator approach enables comprehensive data collection without requiring complex peer-to-peer communication between terminals, thus improving measurement precision while managing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines viewing information from multiple terminal apparatuses into a unified viewer rating system. By merging data from all terminals through the server, the system achieves comprehensive and accurate viewer rating information without requiring each terminal to independently process complex aggregation logic, thereby improving measurement precision while controlling device complexity.
2Measurement precision
If comprehensive viewing information is collected from all channels, then measurement precision is improved, but loss of time and communication overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The server continuously collects and pre-processes viewing information from all terminal apparatuses in the background, maintaining an up-to-date viewer rating database before users request information. This preliminary action ensures that when users query for popular programs or channel ratings, the information is already aggregated and ready, improving measurement precision while minimizing the time users experience for obtaining results.
3Ease of operation
If real-time viewer rating feedback is provided to users, then ease of operation is improved, but loss of information and data transmission volume increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential viewing information needed for user decision-making, such as aggregated viewer ratings and popular program identifiers, from the comprehensive viewing data collected from all terminals. By taking out only the necessary information for real-time feedback rather than transmitting all raw viewing data, the system improves ease of operation while controlling data transmission volume.
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AI summary
A method of providing viewing pattern information of a user terminal apparatus is provided. The method includes: transmitting content viewing information of the user terminal apparatus to a server; receiving information about a channel on which a content is broadcast among a plurality of channels that are on air, from the server; requesting viewing pattern information of the plurality of channels from the server; and receiving and displaying viewing pattern information, which is calculated based on a viewer rating acquired by aggregating the transmitted channel information, from the server.