Automated Contact Expansion via Activity Match Functions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Searching for and adding contacts on social networking platforms is laborious and inefficient.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method that uses a processor to automate the process of determining potential contacts by analyzing user identification, activity data, and generating match functions, allowing users to select and request information from potential contacts, which is then integrated into their profile.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual searching and adding contacts is used, then user control over contact selection is maintained, but the process is laborious and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically determines potential contacts by analyzing user identification data and activity data without requiring manual searching. The processor self-performs the contact identification function by generating match functions between the user and potential contacts, eliminating the need for users to manually search and select contacts.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary automated determination process that acts between the user and potential contacts. Instead of direct manual interaction, the processor mediates by analyzing activity data and generating match functions to identify suitable contacts, thereby streamlining the contact expansion process.
2Ease of operation
If automated contact determination is implemented, then contact expansion efficiency is improved, but the complexity of the system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The processor automatically performs contact determination by self-executing the analysis of user identification and activity data. The system self-generates match functions and identifies potential contacts without requiring complex user intervention, thereby simplifying the operation despite the underlying computational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary analysis of user identification and activity data before contact determination. By pre-processing and organizing this data in memory, the system prepares the necessary information structures that enable efficient automated contact matching, reducing the complexity burden during actual contact determination.
3Loss of time
If manual contact searching is used, then user control and selection accuracy are maintained, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces manual mechanical searching with automated computational analysis. Instead of users manually browsing and selecting contacts, the processor automatically analyzes activity data and generates match functions to identify relevant contacts, thereby reducing time consumption while maintaining selection accuracy through algorithmic evaluation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from activity data analysis to refine contact determination. By continuously analyzing user activity patterns and adjusting match function generation, the system improves the accuracy of contact relevance identification while reducing the time required for manual searching and selection.
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus for expanding contacts for a social networking platform includes at least a processor communicatively connected to a user device and a memory communicatively connected to the processor. The memory contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to determine potential contacts for a user with an automated process including identifying a user identification on an immutable sequential listing, retrieving activity data linked to the user identification, retrieving a body of sets of user activity data as a function of the activity data, and identifying potential contacts by generating a match function between the user and each set of the sets of the user activity data. Processor further receives a selection input from the user device selecting a contact of the potential contacts, delivers an information request about the user to a selected contact device, and receives an information response from the selected contact device.