Content Curation System With Export Options

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional methods for curating content items are time-consuming and often involve navigating complex permissions, making it difficult for content providers to access and republish relevant content from various sources.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that utilizes a graphical user interface to curate content items from social networking systems, providing options for exporting and modifying content for presentation, including popularity metrics and demographic information, to simplify the content curation process and ensure legal usage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If content curators manually locate and verify content items from various websites, then content selection quality can be maintained, but the time required for curation increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent selection qualityVSAvoidcuration time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-processes content items by automatically obtaining them from multiple sources, analyzing their attributes, and organizing them into structured formats before curators need to review them. This preliminary automation of content gathering and basic analysis reduces the time curators spend on manual searching while maintaining selection quality through systematic pre-filtering.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary system between content sources and curators that automatically handles content acquisition, attribute analysis, and presentation. This intermediary layer processes content metadata, determines relevance based on predefined criteria, and organizes results for curator review, thereby reducing manual effort while preserving curatorial oversight.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If curators review content from a vast number of outlets, then content relevance can be improved, but the complexity of the curation process increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent relevanceVSAvoidcuration process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the complex curation process into distinct automated components: content acquisition from multiple outlets, attribute extraction and analysis, relevance scoring based on predefined criteria, and organized presentation of results. This segmentation automates routine analytical tasks while presenting curated, relevance-ranked content to human curators, reducing overall process complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies parameter-based filtering and scoring systems that automatically evaluate content based on multiple attributes (relevance, quality metrics, source credibility). By transforming the curation process into parameter-driven automated evaluation, the system handles complexity through structured criteria rather than manual assessment of numerous outlets.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If curators verify permissions for each content item, then legal compliance can be ensured, but the curation workflow becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelegal complianceVSAvoidworkflow complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary permission verification by automatically checking content attributes and metadata against predefined usage criteria before presenting items to curators. This pre-verification process ensures that only content with appropriate permission status is forwarded for curation, maintaining legal compliance while simplifying the curator's workflow.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements self-service automation where the system automatically handles permission checking and compliance verification without requiring manual curator intervention for each content item. The automated process evaluates content attributes and determines permission status, allowing curators to focus on creative selection while compliance is handled autonomously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10496661B2Systems and methods for curating content items
Publication Date: 2019.12.03 META PLATFORMS INC
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AI summary

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide a graphical user interface that includes at least one set of content items that are available for curation, wherein at least one content item in the set is obtained from a social networking system, and wherein each content item is associated with at least one option for exporting the content item. A selection of the option for exporting a first content item, from the set, to a content provider can be received. The first content item can be provided to the content provider for presentation.