Affiliation Parameter Mapping for Cross-Affiliation Message Relevance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional network and online services fail to effectively manage messages and correlate topics across different affiliations, leading to irrelevant communications due to differing terminology and lack of user identity verification and efficient registration processes.
Innovation Solution
An intra-affiliation and inter-affiliation postings management system that uses a posting manager to map affiliation-specific parameters to intermediate parameters, enabling relevance determination and automatic user affiliation identification and authentication, thereby filtering and displaying relevant messages to users.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional services transmit messages without verifying user identity or mapping terminology, then message transmission is simple and fast, but message relevance and delivery accuracy deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by verifying user identities and mapping affiliation-specific parameters to intermediate parameters before messages are transmitted. The registration module authenticates users in advance, and the posting ordering module pre-maps parameters, so that when messages are delivered, relevance is already established without adding complexity to the transmission process itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces intermediate parameters as a mediator between different affiliation-specific parameters. Instead of directly comparing diverse terminology from different affiliations, the system translates both to a common intermediate parameter space, enabling accurate relevance determination without requiring complex direct comparison logic between all possible affiliation pairs.
2Productivity
If users manually filter through numerous messages to find relevant ones, then message delivery is simple, but user time and efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-service by automatically determining message relevance and filtering content before presenting it to users. The posting ordering module autonomously evaluates messages against user profiles and affiliation mappings, ranking and filtering messages without requiring user intervention. This eliminates the need for manual filtering while improving user efficiency and reducing time loss.
3Reliability
If conventional services use lengthy registration processes, then user authentication is thorough, but registration time and user convenience deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The registration module performs preliminary authentication actions by verifying user identities and determining affiliations during the registration process itself. Rather than requiring separate verification steps later, the system establishes authenticated user profiles with affiliation information upfront, enabling both thorough authentication and fast subsequent message processing.
4Adaptability or versatility
If messages use different terminology for the same topics across affiliations, then each affiliation maintains its own language, but message relevance and cross-affiliation communication deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses intermediate parameters as a mediator layer that preserves affiliation-specific terminology while enabling cross-affiliation topic correlation. Each affiliation can maintain its own parameter names (e.g., different course names), but the mapping to intermediate parameters ensures that semantically equivalent topics across affiliations are correctly correlated, preventing information loss about topic relationships.
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AI summary
Techniques for managing intra-affiliation and inter-affiliation postings are described. Disclosed are techniques for receiving a posting from an account, the account being associated with an affiliation and an account parameter, transmitting one or more affiliation-specific parameters associated with the affiliation to the account, receiving a posting parameter from the account, the posting parameter being selected from one or more affiliation-specific parameters, determining a level of relevancy of the posting to a receiving account based on the posting parameter, the account parameter, and a receiving account parameter, the receiving account being associated with the receiving account parameter, generating an order of postings based on the level of relevancy, and transmitting the order of postings to the receiving account. One or more postings may be displayed at the receiving account based on the order.