Centralized Asset Rating System for E-commerce User Engagement

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current e-commerce websites face challenges in improving online advertisement revenue, sustaining user interest, addressing distractions from studies, and attracting social networking users to act on advertisements, while lacking integration of entities' operational needs and individuals' work and life needs.

Innovation Solution

The development of an online e-commerce and networking system, HotTerrain.com, which offers unique services, incentive rewards, and a multi-directional advertisement model allowing users to request sponsorships directly from advertisers, and provides a platform for entities to build deeper relationships with users through community building and event hosting.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If traditional online advertisement models are used, then advertisers can promote products, but response rates remain low and revenue generation is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertisement response rateVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where users rate assets and provide responses to advertisements, creating a loop that improves advertisement effectiveness. The system collects user feedback on asset ratings and advertisement interactions, then uses this feedback to refine matching algorithms and improve future advertisement responses.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

Users actively participate in rating assets and requesting sponsorships, rather than passively receiving advertisements. The system enables users to self-serve by posting assets, rating other users' assets, and directly requesting sponsorships from advertisers, transforming the traditional top-down advertisement model into an interactive self-service ecosystem.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Productivity

If e-commerce websites focus on transaction efficiency, then buying and selling improves, but user engagement and community building are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction efficiencyVSAvoidcommunity engagement
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transforms the e-commerce platform into a multi-functional system that combines transaction capabilities with social networking, asset rating, and community engagement features. The system serves multiple functions: enabling buying/selling, allowing users to post and rate assets, facilitating direct advertiser-user connections, and building communities around shared interests and transactions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges previously separate functions into a unified platform: combining e-commerce transactions with social networking features, asset rating systems, and direct sponsorship requests. This integration creates a cohesive ecosystem where transactions, community building, and advertisement responses work together synergistically.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Quantity of substance

If websites offer free services to attract users, then user base grows, but advertisement effectiveness and revenue generation decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser base sizeVSAvoidadvertisement revenue
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the parameters of user engagement by implementing asset rating systems and sponsorship request mechanisms. Instead of relying solely on passive advertisement viewing, the system transforms user interaction parameters to include active rating behaviors and direct sponsorship requests, thereby increasing advertisement effectiveness per user while maintaining a large user base.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

4Adaptability or versatility

If social networking features are added to e-commerce sites, then user interest increases, but difficulty in getting users to act on advertisements remains

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interestVSAvoidadvertisement action rate
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism where users rate assets and provide feedback that bridges the gap between advertisements and user actions. This intermediary rating system helps advertisers understand user preferences better and tailor advertisements accordingly, making it easier for users to take desired actions while maintaining high interest levels.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11687950B2Generation online e-commerce and networking system transform scattered assets data on the internet into centralized assets data and generate my assets ratings for internet users
Publication Date: 2023.06.27 TONNISON WENXUAN
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AI summary

A new generation online e-commerce and networking system is disclosed. According to the embodiments of the present invention, the online e-commerce and networking system enables: 1) a user to obtain estimated market value or appraisal value of assets associated with said user wherein said assets data scattered in multiple computer systems are centrally retained in said computer system; 2) automatic calculation of said user's estimated wealth; 3) said user or an entity to request or solicit sponsorships from sponsors for purchasing or selling assets; 4) automatic determination the ratings of said user's wealth among wealth figures of groups; and 5) automatic display said user's wealth and rating information within said computer system with said user's controls. These are revolutionary technologies to disrupt the traditional distributed user data on the Internet and in business systems to create a favorable digital infrastructure environment or user-data-interconnected Internet fabric for the rapid acceleration of the next generation Internet.