Voice App Content Wallet for Offline Audio Delivery

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional voice application platforms do not allow users to access and save user-generated content for offline use, limiting the ability to revisit or share content without repeated phone calls.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a content wallet system within voice application platforms that enables users to select, store, and deliver audio content for offline access, using a repository service and payment gateway for media creation and distribution.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If voice application platforms allow online access to user-generated content, then content availability is improved, but offline accessibility is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent accessibilityVSAvoidoffline usability
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by allowing users to select and save content to their personal content wallets during online sessions. This prepares the content for future offline access, resolving the contradiction by enabling both online availability and offline accessibility through advance content collection and storage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The invention creates copies of audio content by storing selected content in user content wallets. This copying mechanism allows the content to be accessed both online through the voice application platform and offline from the stored copies, eliminating the trade-off between online availability and offline accessibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Loss of information

If voice applications require repeated phone calls for content access, then content retrieval is enabled, but user time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent retrieval capabilityVSAvoidtime for repeated calls
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Users perform preliminary action by selecting and saving desired content to their content wallets during initial online sessions. This eliminates the need for repeated phone calls to access the same content, as the content is already stored and ready for offline access, significantly reducing time consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The content wallet system enables self-service by allowing users to store and manage their own content collections. Users can access their saved content directly from the wallet without requiring repeated manual intervention or phone calls, automating the content retrieval process and reducing time loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Adaptability or versatility

If voice application platforms provide extensive content options, then content versatility is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent optionsVSAvoidplatform structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments content management by introducing personal content wallets that separate user content from platform infrastructure. This segmentation allows the platform to maintain extensive content options while reducing its own complexity, as content storage and management are distributed to individual users rather than centralized in the platform.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The content wallet acts as an intermediary between the voice application platform and the user. This intermediary component simplifies the platform structure by offloading content storage and management responsibilities to the user's wallet, while still providing the platform with access to extensive content options through the wallet interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS10013688B2Offline delivery of content available in voice applications
Publication Date: 2018.07.03 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

Methods and arrangements for facilitating offline delivery of content available in voice applications. User access to a voice application is permitted, and the user is accorded a capability to select content in the voice application for offline delivery. The selected content is stored in a holding arrangement, and the selected content is availed for delivery to the user.