Alliance Data Enrichment for Relationship-Aware Online Communications

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing social network and professional network systems lack the ability to effectively manage and filter digital communications based on the type or strength of relationships, leading to inefficient contact management and decision-making.

Innovation Solution

A communication management server that creates and stores digital records of alliances between user accounts, allowing for the sharing of relationship information and enhancing online content based on alliance data to facilitate more efficient contact management and communication.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If digital records of connections are stored based on binary linkage (friend or not friend), then the system is simple to implement, but the ability to filter and manage content based on relationship type and strength is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem implementation complexityVSAvoidrelationship management capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the binary connection relationship into multiple dimensions including relationship type (professional, personal, academic) and relationship strength (weak, medium, strong). This segmentation allows the system to store and process connection data with greater granularity while maintaining manageable complexity through structured data organization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent adds new dimensions to the traditional binary connection model by introducing relationship type and relationship strength as additional attributes. This transforms the one-dimensional binary relationship into a multi-dimensional relationship model, enabling sophisticated filtering and content management without requiring complete system redesign.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Reliability

If alliance data is integrated into online content, then the quality and relevance of digital communications is enhanced, but the processing complexity and data management burden increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication qualityVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and structuring alliance data before it needs to be integrated into online content. Relationship attributes are calculated and stored in advance, allowing for efficient retrieval and integration during content delivery without adding significant processing complexity at the point of use.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary layer that manages alliance data separately from the core communication system. This intermediary structure handles the complexity of relationship data management while presenting simplified, pre-processed information to the communication platform, thereby enhancing communication quality without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If users manually manage their network connections, then data accuracy is maintained, but time consumption and operational efficiency decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverelationship data accuracyVSAvoidtime for network management
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements self-service mechanisms where the system automatically analyzes digital footprints, communication patterns, and interaction data to infer and update relationship attributes. This automation maintains data accuracy by using objective behavioral indicators while eliminating the need for users to manually manage their network connections, thereby recovering significant time resources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent incorporates feedback loops that continuously monitor communication patterns and update relationship attributes automatically. The system uses feedback from actual user interactions to refine and maintain relationship data accuracy without requiring manual intervention, creating a self-updating system that improves precision while reducing time investment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12615230B2Enhancing online contents based on digital alliance data
Publication Date: 2026.04.28 PROJECT AFFINITY INC
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AI summary

One or more non-transitory storage media storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause performance of a method of enhancing online contents based on digital alliance data are disclosed. The method comprises obtaining at least a portion of a webpage at a first user device associated with a first user and a first user account managed by a communication data management server, the webpage being a digital communication between a first communication account of the first user and a second communication account of a second user; determining an organization associated with the second communication account; identifying one or more members or contacts of an alliance network of the first user account that are associated with the organization; updating the webpage with specific data regarding the one or more members or contacts of the alliance network.