Campaign Management Server Suppressing User Fatigue

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Solution Overview

Problem

E-commerce enterprises face inefficiencies in managing online advertising campaigns, particularly due to user fatigue caused by multiple communications within a short time frame, leading to reduced campaign effectiveness and user opt-outs, as existing tools lack coordination between concurrent campaigns.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising an e-commerce server, data warehouse server, and e-campaign management server that allows for the definition of target profiles, prioritization of campaigns, and suppression of users from lower-priority campaigns to prevent excessive communications, ensuring users receive only the highest-priority messages within a given time frame.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If multiple concurrent marketing campaigns are run to increase user engagement, then campaign reach and potential conversions increase, but user fatigue increases and campaign effectiveness decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenumber of marketing communicationsVSAvoidcampaign effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by establishing communication frequency rules and constraints before campaigns are executed. The campaign management system pre-configures maximum communication frequencies, suppression lists, and coordination protocols to prevent user fatigue before it occurs, rather than reacting after users become fatigued.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by tracking user responses, monitoring communication frequency in real-time, and adjusting campaign delivery based on user engagement levels. The system feeds back information about user fatigue signals to coordinate campaign delivery across multiple campaigns, preventing excessive communications.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If marketing campaigns are coordinated to prevent user fatigue, then user response rates improve, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser response rateVSAvoidcampaign coordination system
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The campaign management system performs multiple functions through a single integrated platform: it manages campaign creation, executes targeting logic, coordinates delivery across concurrent campaigns, enforces frequency rules, and tracks user responses. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate systems into one universal platform.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary campaign management layer between the marketing campaigns and users. This intermediary coordinates communications, manages suppression lists, and controls delivery timing to prevent user fatigue, acting as a mediator that simplifies the interaction between multiple campaigns and the end user.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If targeted user lists are generated from data warehouse queries to enable personalized marketing, then campaign relevance improves, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecampaign relevanceVSAvoidcampaign setup and execution time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-segmenting users into targetable groups based on demographic and behavioral data before campaigns are launched. User profiles and segmentation criteria are established in advance, allowing rapid generation of targeted user lists when campaigns are executed without requiring real-time complex queries.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12141834B1System and method for management of email marketing campaigns
Publication Date: 2024.11.12 OVERSTOCK COM
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AI summary

Systems, programs, non-transitory computer readable mediums, and methods of managing multiple and concurrent online advertising campaigns to eliminate user fatigue are disclosed. In particular, a campaign management server generates multiple target lists of users from a data warehouse for a plurality of pre-defined online advertising campaigns. The users on the target lists are selected to receive electronic communications, such as email or text, containing advertisements based upon target profiles associated with the campaigns as determined by marketing objectives. The advertising campaigns are prioritized such that users on a target list of a higher prioritized campaign are suppressed from lower prioritized campaigns in order to insure that the users receive a predetermined number of electronic communications within a set time frame.