Automated Content Delivery Matching Hardware Configuration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems for providing content to users do not effectively match content with the hardware configuration and network capabilities of user devices, leading to suboptimal content delivery and user experience.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that includes a user device with a network interface and input/output subsystem, which sends hardware configuration data to a server, receives and evaluates data packets containing presentation and evaluation content, and automatically delivers content based on user device attributes, using a recommendation engine to select appropriate content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Speed

If content is delivered without matching to hardware configuration, then content delivery speed is improved, but content relevance and user experience deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent delivery speedVSAvoidcontent relevance
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by collecting hardware configuration data and network capability information from the user device before content delivery. The server pre-processes this information to determine compatibility with available content, and pre-selects or filters appropriate content packages. This preliminary matching process ensures that when content is delivered, it is already optimized for the specific device, resolving the contradiction between fast delivery speed and content relevance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If hardware configuration data is collected and processed, then content matching accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent matching accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the content delivery process into distinct functional modules: a data collection module that gathers hardware configuration and network capability information, a compatibility analysis module that processes this data against content requirements, and a content selection module that delivers matched content. This segmentation allows each module to specialize in specific tasks, improving matching accuracy while managing system complexity through modular architecture. The server and user device each have clearly defined responsibilities, preventing complexity from becoming unmanageable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Measurement precision

If evaluation software is automatically launched and executed, then assessment accuracy is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveassessment accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The evaluation software operates continuously in the background rather than being launched intermittently. Once initiated, it continuously monitors and evaluates user responses, hardware capabilities, and content performance metrics without interruption. This continuous operation allows the system to accumulate evaluation data over time, improving assessment accuracy through more comprehensive data collection while actually reducing total processing time by eliminating the need for repeated software launches and initializations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS11294898B2System and method of automated assessment generation
Publication Date: 2022.04.05 PEARSON EDUCATION INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods for automated content provisioning to a user device are disclosed herein. The system can include a memory including a user profile database containing information relating to a plurality of users and a content library database including a plurality of data packets. The system can include at least one server and a user device. The user device can: receive a request for content receipt; send an electrical signal containing a content request to the server; send an electrical signal containing hardware configuration data to the server; receive first data packets; launch evaluation software; evaluate received response data with the launched evaluation software; generate outcome data for a plurality of attributes of the received response data; and automatically deliver second presentation data received in second data packets.