Personalized Content Aggregation via Server-Side Topic Modeling

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems lack an efficient method for automatically generating and delivering personalized content to users over a network, particularly for learning purposes, where content is not tailored to individual user profiles and learning styles, leading to ineffective preparation for challenges like exams.

Innovation Solution

A processor-based system that includes a communication network, memory, and a server configured to extract relevant text strings from content files using a topic model, generate personalized content aggregations, and transmit them to user devices based on user profiles and learning progress, adapting difficulty levels and frequency over time.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If content is manually curated and delivered to users, then content quality and relevance can be maintained, but the system complexity and resource requirements increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent relevanceVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automatic content aggregation where the server autonomously retrieves, processes, and delivers content based on user profiles without requiring manual curation. The server self-manages the content delivery workflow by automatically generating aggregated content from multiple sources and transmitting it to user devices according to their specific needs and progress tracking.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If personalized content is generated for each user, then learning effectiveness improves, but the processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelearning effectivenessVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-generates aggregated content by retrieving and processing content from multiple sources in advance, storing it on the server before users request it. This preliminary content aggregation reduces the processing time when users need content, as the server already has the processed material ready for immediate transmission based on their profiles and progress.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Productivity

If content aggregation is automatically generated without personalization, then system simplicity is maintained, but user engagement and learning outcomes deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent delivery efficiencyVSAvoiduser engagement
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system delivers customized content aggregations tailored to each user's specific profile, learning progress, and preferences. Instead of providing uniform content to all users, the server generates distinct content aggregations for each user based on their individual characteristics and tracking data, ensuring local optimization for each user's learning needs while maintaining automated efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS10789316B2Personalized automatic content aggregation generation
Publication Date: 2020.09.29 PEARSON EDUCATION INC
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AI summary

Generating personalized aggregated content is disclosed herein. The system can include a memory include an aggregated content database. The system can include a user device having a first network interface and a first I/O subsystem. The system can include one or more servers that can include a packet selection system and a presentation system. These one or more servers can: receive content files from the user device. A server can parse the content files and further generate features and feature vectors based on a related domain model. Content from the parsed content files may then be used to generate cards or content aggregations.