Virtual Screening Platform Integrating Authentication and Watermarking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current film and television screening processes are inefficient, cumbersome, and lack uniformity, requiring multiple vendors and failing to effectively prevent piracy, with labor-intensive administrative work and inadequate feedback gathering.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for facilitating virtual screenings that processes online invitations and recruitments efficiently, generates unique links for users, authenticates participants, applies digital rights management, and tracks media content usage, while gathering feedback for potential content enhancements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple disparate services from different vendors are used to conduct screenings, then various screening functions (reservation, content delivery, feedback collection) can be provided, but the process becomes inefficient, cumbersome, and difficult to manage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple disparate screening services (reservation system, content delivery, authentication, feedback collection) into a single integrated virtual screening platform. This consolidation eliminates the need to coordinate multiple vendors and systems, reducing administrative overhead and improving efficiency while maintaining comprehensive screening functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual screening system is designed as a universal platform that performs multiple functions: user identification, invitation management, authentication, content delivery with digital rights management, real-time monitoring, and feedback collection. This multi-functional approach replaces the need for separate specialized services from different vendors.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional manual methods (spreadsheets, phone calls, emails) are used to manage screenings, then flexibility is maintained, but labor-intensive administrative work increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automated self-service operations including automatic user identification from databases, automated invitation distribution through multiple channels, automated authentication processes, and automated feedback collection. This eliminates manual administrative tasks while maintaining process flexibility through configurable parameters and rules.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical processes (spreadsheets, phone calls, emails) with automated digital systems. The virtual platform uses software-based workflows to manage reservations, deliver content, authenticate users, and collect feedback, dramatically reducing administrative labor while improving efficiency and consistency.
3Ease of operation
If standard content delivery methods are used without additional security measures, then ease of access is improved, but piracy and unauthorized behavior cannot be effectively prevented
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements preliminary anti-piracy measures by embedding unique watermarks in content before delivery, establishing authentication requirements in advance, and configuring digital rights management rules beforehand. These preventive measures are built into the content delivery process from the start, allowing easy access for authorized users while automatically preventing piracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer between the content and the user through digital rights management authentication and unique watermarking. This intermediary mechanism verifies user authorization, tracks content usage, and prevents unauthorized copying or distribution, all while maintaining seamless access for legitimate users through automated processes.
4Reliability
If comprehensive user authentication and tracking are implemented, then piracy prevention and usage monitoring are improved, but system complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system manages complexity by changing parameters such as embedding watermarks directly into content streams, using standardized authentication protocols, and implementing rules-based monitoring. These parameter changes enable comprehensive tracking and authentication without requiring complex custom solutions for each function.
Data Source
AI summary
A system for facilitating a virtual screening is disclosed. The system identifies a user for participating in a virtual screening of media content. The system generates a unique link for the user to facilitate access to the media content. When the user interacts with the link, the system prompts the user to authenticate with the system and determines whether the authentication was successful. If authentication is successful, the link is associated with an identifier of the user and/or a user device. A request for a key for decrypting the media content and a request for a digitally signed file accessing the media content pursuant to parameters are made. If the digitally signed file is valid, the system applies a watermark to the media content to track the use of the media content and streams the media content to the user. Feedback on the media content is obtained from the user.