Attribute-Based Advertisement Categorization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing advertising technologies face challenges in selecting relevant advertisements for users, as they often lack a comprehensive inventory of creative content to match diverse user interests and struggle to adapt to dynamic user preferences in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Innovation Solution

The system categorizes advertisement creatives based on attributes such as product type, color, and media type, and uses user preference data to select or generate advertisements that match user interests, combining targeted advertising with 'house' content created by the provider to ensure relevance and effectiveness.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Speed

If advertisement content is selected based on available inventory without comprehensive categorization, then advertisement selection speed is improved, but advertisement relevance to user interests deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertisement selection speedVSAvoidadvertisement relevance
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary categorization of advertisement creatives into multiple categories (e.g., product type, color, media type) before the advertisement selection process. This pre-organization allows the system to quickly retrieve relevant advertisements without compromising relevance, as the categorization work is done in advance rather than during real-time selection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The advertisement creative inventory is segmented into multiple categories based on different attributes such as product type, color, and media type. This segmentation enables the system to efficiently search and select relevant advertisements by matching user preferences against specific category dimensions, resolving the conflict between selection speed and relevance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Manufacturing precision

If comprehensive advertisement inventory is maintained to match diverse user interests, then advertisement relevance is improved, but system complexity and cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertisement relevanceVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The categorization system serves multiple functions simultaneously: it organizes advertisement inventory, enables efficient retrieval, supports diverse user preferences, and facilitates rapid selection. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate systems for each purpose, thereby managing complexity while maintaining comprehensive coverage.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system adds categorical dimensions (product type, color, media type) to the advertisement inventory structure. By organizing advertisements along multiple independent dimensions, the system can efficiently match diverse user interests without requiring a completely separate advertisement for every possible user preference combination, thus managing inventory complexity.

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

3Adaptability or versatility

If user preference data is continuously analyzed to update user profiles, then adaptability to user interests is improved, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to user interestsVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary categorization of advertisements and pre-processes user preference data into structured profiles before real-time advertisement selection is needed. This allows the system to quickly match user preferences against categorized advertisements during the selection process without performing complex analysis in real-time, thus reducing processing time while maintaining adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

4Manufacturing precision

If targeted advertisements are generated using house content, then advertisement relevance is improved, but content creation cost and time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertisement relevanceVSAvoidcontent creation efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

House content is segmented into reusable components categorized by attributes such as product type, color, and media type. These modular components can be efficiently assembled and configured to create targeted advertisements without creating entirely new content from scratch, thus improving relevance while maintaining content creation efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS8725559B1Attribute based advertisement categorization
Publication Date: 2014.05.13 AMAZON TECH INC
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AI summary

System and methods for categorizing electronic advertisements categorized based on the attributes associated with the creatives, such as product type, predominant color, size of the create, media type of the creative are provided. Categories to be associated with electronic advertisements may be predefined, and an electronic advertisement may have various attributes associated with each of these categories.