Content Feed Subscription Suggestions for Web Pages

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users often fail to notice and subscribe to content feeds available on web pages they visit, leading to missed opportunities for accessing updated information such as news and blog postings.

Innovation Solution

A method is implemented to identify documents with associated content feeds during user browsing sessions and provide subscription suggestions, allowing users to opt-in to these feeds through a content feed aggregation system that tracks user interactions and suppresses redundant or rejected suggestions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If content feed links are provided on web pages, then users have access to content feeds, but users fail to notice and subscribe to them

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser awareness of content feedsVSAvoidsubscription process

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by automatically detecting content feeds on web pages before users can miss them, and proactively presenting subscription suggestions to users, thus preventing the loss of information about available content feeds

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary mechanism that monitors web page content, identifies feed links, and presents them to users in a suggestive manner, bridging the gap between feed availability and user awareness

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of information

If the system provides subscription suggestions to users, then user awareness of content feeds increases, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent feed availabilityVSAvoidsystem structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system achieves multi-functionality by combining web page monitoring, content feed detection, user preference analysis, and subscription suggestion delivery into a single integrated system, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive functionality

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Adaptability or versatility

If the system tracks user interactions to provide personalized suggestions, then suggestion relevance improves, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesuggestion personalizationVSAvoidprocessing time

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by focusing tracking and analysis only on relevant user interactions and preferences related to content consumption, rather than monitoring all user activities, thus reducing processing time while maintaining personalization effectiveness

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS8190997B2Personalized content feed suggestions page

Publication Date: 2012.05.29 GOOGLE LLC

AI summary

A user may be presented with suggestions of content feeds to which she may subscribe. The suggestions are based on documents, such as web pages, accessed by the user. The content feeds suggested to the user are content feeds associated with at least some of the documents accessed by the user. The user may accept or reject any or all of the suggestions. A suggestion of a content feed may be suppressed based on a rejection of a past suggestion for the same content feed.