Analytics Subsystem for Personalized Content Recommendations

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing content recommendation systems fail to adequately match content with users due to insufficient consideration of user activity and behavior data.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising an analytics subsystem that receives user activity data, determines metadata associated with media assets, and uses machine learning models to provide personalized content recommendations by classifying user behavior and engaging media assets, thereby sending tailored recommendations to user devices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If existing recommendation systems use user surveys and viewership statistics, then content recommendations are provided, but user activity and behavior are not sufficiently accounted for, resulting in inadequate content-user matching

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent-user matching accuracyVSAvoiduser activity data utilization
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring user activity data (clicks, views, time spent) and using this feedback to refine content recommendations through machine learning models, creating a closed-loop system that improves matching accuracy over time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical recommendation approaches (surveys, simple statistics) with machine learning-based systems that automatically process user activity data, enabling more precise and dynamic content-user matching without manual intervention

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Measurement precision

If machine learning models are used to analyze user activity data and provide personalized recommendations, then content-user matching accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent-user matching accuracyVSAvoidrecommendation system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The recommendation system is segmented into distinct functional modules: user activity data collection, metadata determination, machine learning model processing, and recommendation generation. This modular architecture manages complexity by allowing each component to be developed, maintained, and optimized independently

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Adaptability or versatility

If comprehensive user activity data is collected and analyzed, then personalized content recommendations are enhanced, but data processing requirements and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoidcomputational resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial action by focusing computational resources on analyzing the most relevant user activity data and metadata features for each recommendation task, rather than processing all possible data uniformly, thereby reducing overall computational overhead while maintaining personalization quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS11962857B2Methods, systems, and apparatuses for content recommendations based on user activity
Publication Date: 2024.04.16 ON24 INC
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AI summary

Methods, systems, and apparatuses for content recommendations based on user activity data are described herein. An analytics subsystem may receive first activity data. The first activity may be indicative of a plurality of first engagements with a first plurality of media assets. At least one machine learning model may be configured to receive an input of activity data, such as the first activity data, and to determine at least one content recommendation on that basis. The at least one content recommendation may comprise a recommendation for at least one media asset. The at least one media asset may be associated with at least one media asset classification. The analytics subsystem may send the at least one content recommendation.