Aggregate Post Generation for Social Media Content Streams
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Solution Overview
Problem
Social networking systems face challenges in effectively aggregating posts from multiple users that reference a common topic, leading to cluttered content streams and reduced user interest, as existing methods do not efficiently summarize or visualize the collective opinions of users on a specific topic.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that identifies posts referencing a common topic, generates an aggregate post displaying a primary entity affiliated with the topic, and visually represents the opinions of individual users through sentiment analysis, allowing for a condensed and informative display of user opinions without requiring individual posts to be displayed separately.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If individual posts from multiple users referencing a common topic are displayed separately, then user engagement with diverse content is improved, but content stream clutter increases and user interest decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual posts that reference a common topic into a single aggregate post. This combining approach reduces the number of separate content entries while preserving the collective information from all contributing users, thereby reducing content stream clutter while maintaining information completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the aggregate post into distinct visual components: a primary entity representation (user, group, or organization) and individual user contribution indicators. This segmentation allows the aggregate post to display consolidated information while still acknowledging individual contributions, resolving the contradiction between information completeness and content stream complexity.
2Loss of information
If all individual posts are displayed separately, then complete user opinions are preserved, but content duplication increases and user engagement decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual posts with similar content about a common topic into a single aggregate post. This merging reduces content volume by eliminating duplicates while preserving opinion representation through the aggregation of user contributions, thereby reducing content duplication while maintaining complete opinion representation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a representative copy of the collective user opinions in the form of an aggregate post. This copy encapsulates the essence of multiple individual posts without requiring display of all original posts, thereby maintaining opinion representation while reducing content volume.
3Adaptability or versatility
If aggregate post displays a primary entity not affiliated with the topic, then user acquaintance requirements are relaxed, but user trust in content authenticity may decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary visual representation for aggregate posts that is neither the original post authors nor completely unrelated entities. The primary entity displayed serves as a mediator that represents the collective opinion while maintaining some connection to the topic, thereby enabling user access without completely sacrificing content authenticity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different quality levels to different parts of the aggregate post display. The primary entity representation may have enhanced visual prominence, while individual user contribution indicators provide additional context. This local quality differentiation allows the system to present information in the most effective way while maintaining both accessibility and authenticity.
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AI summary
In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for aggregating posts submitted to a messaging system. A server system identifies a plurality of posts that were submitted to a messaging system from a plurality of users with which a first user has an acquaintanceship relationship. The server system analyzes content from a body of each post to determine a group of the posts that each reference a common topic. The server system provides information so as to cause the computing device to display to the first user, in place of an individual display for each post in the group, an aggregate post that presents, as a primary entity, a second user of the messaging system that is affiliated with the common topic and that did not submit to the messaging system a post that referenced the common topic.