Personalized Content Distribution via User Mastery Estimation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current content distribution systems lack personalized and adaptive methods to deliver content effectively to users based on their individual attributes and learning styles, leading to inefficient content delivery and user engagement.

Innovation Solution

A content distribution network that includes a memory with a content database, task database, and user profile database, utilizing servers to parse content, identify segments, generate networked groupings, and train models to estimate user mastery levels by correlating user activities with content features, allowing for personalized content delivery.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If content is delivered using traditional distribution systems, then content can be provided to users, but the content delivery is not personalized or adaptive to individual user attributes and learning styles

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The content is divided into discrete segments that can be independently analyzed and matched to user attributes. The system segments user profiles into distinct attributes and learning styles, allowing targeted content delivery without requiring complete system redesign.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

User profiles and content metadata are pre-analyzed and stored in structured formats before delivery. The system performs preliminary matching of user attributes with content characteristics, so that personalized delivery can occur efficiently without complex real-time processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If traditional content distribution is used, then content delivery can occur, but user engagement and learning outcomes are not optimized

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelearning efficiencyVSAvoiduser attribute information
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously collects and analyzes user interaction data, updating user profiles based on observed behaviors and outcomes. This feedback loop enables the system to refine its understanding of user attributes and improve content matching over time, optimizing learning efficiency while utilizing user information effectively.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts content delivery parameters based on user attributes and performance data. By changing content selection, difficulty level, and presentation format according to measured user characteristics, the system improves learning efficiency without losing critical user information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Adaptability or versatility

If personalized content delivery is implemented, then user engagement improves, but the system requires complex model training and feature extraction

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptive content deliveryVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Content is pre-segmented and tagged with relevant features before delivery. User profiles are pre-processed to extract key attributes in advance, reducing the computational complexity required during actual content delivery while maintaining adaptive capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces intermediate processing layers that translate complex user data and content features into matched pairs for delivery. This intermediary matching process simplifies the overall system architecture by decoupling the complexity of profile analysis from content delivery execution.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11188841B2Personalized content distribution
Publication Date: 2021.11.30 PEARSON EDUCATION INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods for content provisioning are disclosed herein. The method includes receiving content corresponding to at least one source document, parsing the content, identifying segments from the parsed content, generating a networked grouping of the segments, receiving historical user information about a plurality of users, training a model by using the historical user information, receiving activities of a user, parsing the activities of the user, identifying components from the parsed activities, correlating the components with the segments, extracting features from the activities of the user based on the correlation, and using the trained model to estimate a mastery level of the user based on the features.