Webcast Media Playback via Message Parsing Engine

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Solution Overview

Problem

During webcasts, presenters face inefficiencies and cybersecurity concerns when managing and responding to audience requests for media content playback, as they need to manually search for and play requested media items, which is time-consuming and distracting, and can lead to compatibility issues and security risks from unsanctioned links.

Innovation Solution

A system with a message processing engine, media-playback engine, and webcast compositing engine that parses messages for media content requests, adds items to a play queue, and provides metadata, allowing for automated playback and reduced attention required by the presenter, while ensuring security by processing requests without needing to access potentially malicious links.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If the presenter manually searches for and plays requested media content items, then the presenter can directly control playback, but the process becomes inefficient and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveefficiency of responding to audience requestsVSAvoidtime spent searching for and playing media items

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a message processing engine as an intermediary between the audience's media content requests and the presenter's device. This engine automatically parses messages, identifies media content items, and executes playback without requiring the presenter to manually search for or control playback, thereby resolving the contradiction between direct control and efficiency

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by allowing the message processing engine to autonomously handle media content playback based on audience requests. The engine automatically processes requests, retrieves media items, and plays them back without needing continuous presenter intervention, improving productivity while reducing time loss

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If the presenter accesses unsanctioned links from audience messages, then all media content requests can be fulfilled, but cybersecurity risks increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to play any requested media contentVSAvoidcybersecurity threats from malicious links

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The message processing engine serves as a secure intermediary that mediates between audience requests and the presenter's device. It parses messages to identify media content items without requiring the presenter to directly access potentially malicious links, thus maintaining the ability to fulfill diverse requests while blocking cybersecurity threats

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system converts the potential harm of unsanctioned links into a benefit by using the message processing engine to safely parse and validate requests. The engine can identify legitimate media content items from messages without executing or accessing suspicious links, transforming a security risk into a controlled playback mechanism

Inventive Principle:

Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

3Reliability

If the presenter focuses on the primary webcast content, then the quality of the main presentation improves, but the presenter cannot simultaneously respond to audience media requests

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvequality of primary webcast content deliveryVSAvoidability to respond to audience requests

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The message processing engine acts as an intermediary that handles audience media requests independently, allowing the presenter to focus entirely on the primary webcast content. The engine automatically processes requests and coordinates playback without requiring the presenter to divert attention from the main presentation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements self-service by enabling the message processing engine to autonomously manage media content playback based on audience requests. This allows the presenter to maintain full focus on the primary webcast content while the system independently handles audience interactions, ensuring both high presentation quality and responsive audience engagement

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS11616818B2Distributed control of media content item during webcast

Publication Date: 2023.03.28 SPOTIFY

AI summary

Disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for distributed control of media-playback components of a webcast. In an example, a webcast presenter's device can include a webcast compositing engine for creating a webcast from a variety of data sources, a media-playback engine for playing media content items, and a message processing engine for processing messages sent from audience members to the presenter. The message processing engine can obtain the messages and parse the messages for tokens indicative of a requested media content item. The message processing engine, having identified the requested media content item, can then cause the media-playback engine to play the requested content or add it to a queue.