Virtual Fan Seating Moderation for Real-Time Broadcast Integration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing video broadcasting platforms struggle to incorporate the energy and interaction of remote fans into live events, particularly due to the Covid-19 pandemic reducing physical attendance, leading to a lack of engagement between in-venue talent and remote viewers.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for integrating a live virtual fan experience by capturing and broadcasting user-generated video and audio feeds in real-time, using a cloud-based platform to manage registrations, feed integration, and user interfaces, with real-time policy enforcement and dynamic seat management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If remote fan video feeds are integrated into live event broadcasts, then viewer engagement and energy transfer are improved, but system complexity and moderation challenges increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveviewer engagementVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

An administration system acts as an intermediary between remote fans and the live event broadcast. This mediator receives video feeds from multiple fans, applies policy-based moderation, selects appropriate feeds, and integrates them into the broadcast. The intermediary handles the complexity of managing numerous fan feeds while presenting a curated, compliant selection to the broadcast, thus resolving the contradiction between engagement and system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments the fan feed management process into distinct modules: feed reception, policy violation detection, feed selection, and broadcast integration. By dividing the complex task of managing remote fan interactions into separable functional components, the system can handle each aspect independently, making the overall system more manageable and maintainable while still achieving high viewer engagement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Reliability

If real-time policy enforcement is applied to user feeds, then event quality and compliance are maintained, but processing time and system load increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveevent qualityVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Policy rules are pre-configured and stored in the administration system before the live event begins. The system pre-compiles compliance criteria and validation logic, so that during the event, feeds can be quickly evaluated against these predetermined policies without requiring complex real-time analysis. This preliminary preparation reduces processing time during the actual broadcast while maintaining strict compliance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses machine learning models that have been trained on historical data to create simplified decision-making copies of complex policy evaluation processes. These pre-trained models can quickly assess whether a fan feed violates policies by comparing it against learned patterns, significantly reducing the computational time required for real-time enforcement while maintaining high accuracy in quality control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Productivity

If machine learning models are used for automatic feed selection, then integration speed and accuracy are improved, but computational resources and model training time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveintegration speedVSAvoidcomputational resources
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The machine learning system applies different levels of analysis to different fan feeds based on their characteristics and importance. Rather than applying uniform complex analysis to all feeds, the system identifies key feeds that will have the greatest impact on engagement and applies more sophisticated model analysis only to those. Less critical feeds receive simpler, faster processing, reducing overall computational resource consumption while maintaining high integration speed for the most important content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS12381927B2Moderation of virtual fan seating
Publication Date: 2025.08.05 FAMOUS GROUP TECHNOLOGIES INC
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AI summary

A method of providing a user interface for a live virtual fan experience on a client device of a user is disclosed. Based on a receiving of a notification from a live event broadcasting platform, a live video feed of the user is communicated to the live event broadcasting platform. Based on a receiving of a notification from the live event broadcasting platform that the live video feed of the user has been selected for integration into a broadcasting of the live event, a notification is caused to be presented in real time in the user interface. Based on a notification from the live event broadcasting platform that the live video feed of the user has been integrated into the broadcasting of the live event, the user interface is caused to be updated in real time to reflect the integrating of the live video feed.