Automated Compliance Management for Digital Content Moderation

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Solution Overview

Problem

The traditional approach to compliance management in broadcasting, which involves manual review of content by multiple moderators, is cost-prohibitive and inefficient, especially for large volumes of content, particularly in the OTT VOD environment where user-generated content poses challenges with inappropriate visual or audio content.

Innovation Solution

An automated system utilizing a detection module for cognitive analysis of digital content against compliance rules, generating alerts for potentially dubious content, and a moderator module that suggests modifications to ensure compliance, reducing the workload for human moderators and improving efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual compliance moderation is used for all content, then compliance accuracy is maintained, but time consumption and cost increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompliance accuracyVSAvoidmoderation time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The moderation process is segmented into two distinct stages: automated detection module that performs initial compliance screening, and manual moderator module that handles only flagged content. This segmentation allows the system to leverage automated processing for routine checks while reserving human expertise for complex or ambiguous cases, thereby reducing overall moderation time while maintaining compliance accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The detection module performs preliminary compliance checking on all content before it reaches human moderators. By pre-processing content and identifying potential violations automatically, the system eliminates the need for manual review of compliant content, significantly reducing moderation time while preserving accuracy through subsequent human verification of flagged items.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If multiple compliance moderators are deployed for large content volumes, then compliance coverage is improved, but cost increases prohibitively

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompliance coverageVSAvoidmoderator resources
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The detection module operates autonomously to perform initial compliance screening without requiring human moderator intervention for each content item. The automated system independently analyzes content against compliance rules, generates alerts for potential violations, and prioritizes content for human review, thereby reducing the quantity of moderator resources needed while maintaining comprehensive compliance coverage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The automated detection module serves as an intermediary between content and human moderators. It filters and prioritizes content based on compliance risk, presenting only relevant cases to human reviewers. This intermediary function optimizes resource allocation by ensuring moderator attention is focused on content that actually requires human judgment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Productivity

If automated detection is implemented for all content, then processing speed increases, but false alerts increase moderator workload

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocessing speedVSAvoidalert accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts the moderation workflow based on detection results. Content is routed to different processing streams: automated approval for high-confidence compliant content, human review for flagged content, and prioritized analysis for high-risk items. This dynamic routing optimizes processing speed for clear cases while ensuring alert accuracy through selective human verification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where moderator decisions on flagged content are used to refine and improve the detection module's alert accuracy over time. This feedback loop allows the automated system to learn from human expertise, reducing false alerts and improving the precision of compliance detection while maintaining high processing speeds.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10298999B2Automated compliance management
Publication Date: 2019.05.21 PRJ HLDG CO LLC
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AI summary

There is disclosed a computer system for analysing content, comprising: a detection module connected to receive at least one piece of digital content, the detection module being operable to access a set of compliance rules and compare the received at least one piece of digital content with the set of compliance rules, the detection module further being configured to generate an alert if the result of the analysis indicates a breach of at least one of the rules; a moderator module connected to receive the alert, the moderator module configured to enable output to a moderator based only on the piece of digital content which caused the alert to be generated, whereby the moderator can assess a modification to be made to the piece of content which caused the alert to be generated.