Content Figure Visualization for Online Community Services
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing online community services struggle to effectively visualize relationships among various pieces of content and determine their importance, limiting users' ability to recognize mainstream and non-mainstream content.
Innovation Solution
A community service providing apparatus and method that generates and transmits content figures representing connected content, with upper content figures increasing in size based on connected lower hierarchies, and adjusts shape and color to highlight important content, allowing users to easily recognize relationships and importance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If content is sorted by date or number of recommendations only, then the sorting process is simple, but relationships among various pieces of content cannot be effectively visualized and importance determination is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms one-dimensional sorting (by date or recommendation count) into a two-dimensional visualization system using content figures with varying sizes and hierarchical positions. This dimensional change allows simultaneous display of multiple content attributes (importance, relationships, hierarchy) that cannot be conveyed through simple sorting alone.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs visual differentiation through content figure characteristics (size, position, potentially color) to encode multiple dimensions of content information. This visual encoding system allows users to quickly perceive content relationships and importance levels without complex sorting algorithms.
2Device complexity
If content figures are displayed with uniform size, then the display is simple, but users cannot easily notice relationships among pieces of content and determine importance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making content figures have different sizes based on their importance and hierarchical level. This differentiation allows users to immediately distinguish between main content and sub-content, as well as identify important content trends without requiring complex cognitive processing.
Solution Approach 2:
By introducing size as an additional visual dimension beyond uniform display, the system enables users to perceive content relationships and importance levels at a glance. The hierarchical arrangement combined with varying sizes creates an intuitive visual hierarchy that simplifies content navigation.
3Quantity of substance
If all content is displayed with equal attention, then content display is comprehensive, but spamming cannot be prevented and search performance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by differentiating content figures based on their significance. Meaningful content receives prominent display with larger sizes, while spam or low-value content is minimized or hidden. This selective emphasis maintains comprehensive content coverage while improving search efficiency by directing user attention to high-value content.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs partial action by selectively highlighting only the most important content figures rather than treating all content equally. This approach prevents information overload and spam impact while maintaining comprehensive content availability, thereby improving search productivity.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are an apparatus and method for providing a community service. The apparatus includes a content analysis unit configured to generate a plurality of content figures representing a plurality of pieces of content, and generate connection relationships of the plurality of content figures according to connection relationships among the plurality of pieces of content, a content management unit configured to set a size value of an upper content figure based on lower content figures, from among the plurality of content figures, connected to lower hierarchies of the upper content figure, and a content transmitter configured to transmit connection relationships of the plurality of content figures and size data that includes the size value to a user terminal connecting to an on-line community. Accordingly, an overall trend may be noticed at a glance, and it may be possible to prevent content spamming because meaningless content would fall behind.