Wireless Terminal Expiration Notification for Content Promotions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wireless communication networks lack effective mechanisms for timely notification of content expiration in broadcast services, leading to users missing promotional opportunities or expiring content, as current systems do not adequately remind users of expiring preview data referenced in Electronic Service Guides.
Innovation Solution
Implementing an expiration notification system within wireless terminals, where content providers or network operators send expiration alerts via metadata tags or messaging services, prompting users through the user interface with increasing frequency as the expiration time approaches, ensuring timely reminders for content acquisition.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If preview data is provided in Electronic Service Guide without expiration notification mechanism, then users can browse service information, but users miss promotional opportunities or expiring content due to lack of timely reminders
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by sending expiration notification messages to wireless terminals before the preview data actually expires. The content provider or network operator determines the expiration time in advance and proactively notifies users, allowing them to take action (view content or purchase) before the opportunity is lost. This prevents the information loss that would otherwise occur.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary notification mechanism that mediates between the content provider and the user. Instead of requiring direct user monitoring of expiration times, the system uses expiration notification messages as intermediaries to convey timing information. These messages can be sent through the network operator or content provider, acting as a mediator that bridges the information gap without requiring complex user-side tracking systems.
2Reliability
If expiration notification messages are sent continuously, then users receive timely reminders, but network bandwidth and user device resources are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of continuous notification, the system implements periodic action by sending expiration notification messages at specific intervals or at predetermined times before expiration. The notification can be sent once at a determined expiration time, or periodically approaching the expiration point, balancing reliability with resource conservation. This avoids the energy waste of continuous monitoring and messaging while still ensuring users receive timely reminders.
Data Source
AI summary
A method includes receiving, by a wireless terminal from a content provider, preview information referencing video content not yet received by the wireless terminal and that is associated with bonus content that has limited availability, expiration notification metadata, and expiration window information corresponding to expiration of the limited availability of the bonus content. The method further includes determining that the video content has not been consumed or purchased and that the limited availability is nearing the expiration based on the expiration window information. The method further includes, responsive to the determining that the video content has not been consumed or purchased and that the limited availability is nearing the expiration, generating, based on the expiration notification metadata, a prompt indicating that the limited availability of the bonus content is to expire.