Adaptive Content Delivery System for Emotional State Prediction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional interactive software systems fail to dynamically adapt content delivery messages and user experiences to individual users' emotional states, sensitivities, and cultural backgrounds, leading to alienation, frustration, and potential loss of customers due to inappropriate content presentation.

Innovation Solution

The system accesses current content data, user historical context data, and emotional profile data to predict emotional effects on users, dynamically modifying content delivery messages and user experience components to provide personalized and adaptive interactions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional interactive software systems use static, generic content delivery messages and user experience components, then the system is simple to develop and maintain, but the user experience becomes inappropriate and alienating for individual users with different emotional states, sensitivities, and cultural backgrounds

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to user emotional state and cultural backgroundVSAvoidsystem complexity for dynamic content adaptation
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of user profile data, historical context data, and content data before delivering content to predict emotional effects. This advance preparation allows the system to select appropriate content delivery messages and user experience components in advance, enabling dynamic adaptation without adding significant complexity to the core delivery mechanism

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an emotional effect prediction analytics module as an intermediary between the content delivery system and the user. This module analyzes multiple data sources (user profile, historical context, content characteristics) and translates them into predictions about emotional effects, which then guide the selection of appropriate content delivery messages and user experience components. The intermediary handles the complexity of adaptation logic separately from the core content delivery function

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If the system dynamically adapts content delivery to individual users based on emotional state and historical data, then user satisfaction improves, but the data processing requirements and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser satisfaction and emotional appropriatenessVSAvoidcomputational resources for data analysis
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial analysis by focusing on the most relevant features of user profile data, historical context data, and content data that have the greatest impact on emotional effects. Rather than analyzing all possible data points equally, the system identifies and processes only the critical subsets needed for accurate prediction, reducing computational overhead while maintaining reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes parameters of the analysis process by adjusting the depth and scope of data processing based on the specific context. For example, the system may use simplified prediction models for routine content delivery and more comprehensive analysis for sensitive or important content. This dynamic parameter adjustment optimizes computational resource usage while maintaining appropriate user satisfaction levels

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of operation

If the system provides personalized content delivery messages and user experience components, then user experience quality improves, but the time required to process and deliver content increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser experience quality and personalizationVSAvoidcontent processing and delivery time
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of user profiles and historical context data during off-peak periods or in advance of content delivery needs. User profile data is processed and stored in a ready-to-use format that enables rapid matching with content characteristics during actual delivery. This advance preparation significantly reduces the time required for personalized content delivery while maintaining high user experience quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses copying by creating and storing multiple versions of content delivery messages and user experience components that are pre-adapted for different emotional states and user characteristics. Instead of generating personalized content in real-time, the system selects from pre-prepared copies that match the predicted emotional effects, dramatically reducing processing time while maintaining personalization quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS10169827B1Method and system for adapting a user experience provided through an interactive software system to the content being delivered and the predicted emotional impact on the user of that content
Publication Date: 2019.01.01 INTUIT INC
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AI summary

Current content data, user historical context data, and user feedback and emotional profile data is analyzed to predict emotional effect on the user of content to be provided to the user through an interactive software system. The resulting emotional effect data is then used to dynamically modify the form of the content delivery message and/or the user's experience by selecting one or more content delivery messages and/or user experience components based on the emotional effect data before, or as, the content is delivered to the user. In this way, different types of content delivery messages and/or user experience components can be utilized, and/or combined, to provide the user with an individualized user experience that is adapted to the predicted emotional effect on the user of the content being delivered, before, or as, that content is being delivered.