Dynamic Content Pool Balancing via User Interaction Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional content pooling methods fail to accurately represent content topics, leading to under- or over-representation, which results in users not receiving relevant content, and content providers inefficiently allocate resources due to misrepresentation of user interests.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that determine the availability and interest level of content topics in a content pool by analyzing user interactions, using a processor to update the content pool by adding or removing content items based on representation levels, ensuring a balanced representation of topics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If content pooling methods are used to aggregate content items, then the quantity of available content increases, but the representation accuracy of content topics deteriorates due to under- or over-representation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequantity of content itemsVSAvoidrepresentation accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors user interactions with content items and uses this feedback to dynamically adjust the content pool. By tracking metrics such as click-through rates, time spent, and engagement patterns, the system identifies under-represented and over-represented topics, then automatically adds or removes content items to maintain accurate topic representation while preserving content quantity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameters of content selection by introducing topic representation metrics as a new dimension for evaluating content items. Instead of selecting content based solely on quantity or popularity, the system adjusts selection parameters to include topic distribution balance, ensuring that the content pool maintains both sufficient quantity and accurate representation across multiple topics

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Measurement precision

If user interaction data is analyzed to determine interest levels, then the relevance of content to users improves, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent relevanceVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the analysis process into distinct modules: one module collects user interaction data, another processes the data to determine topic interest levels, and a third module uses these insights to adjust the content pool. This segmentation allows each component to focus on a specific task, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high content relevance through comprehensive user interaction analysis

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Productivity

If the content pool is updated dynamically based on representation levels, then user engagement improves, but the resource allocation overhead increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser engagementVSAvoidresource allocation overhead
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements periodic updates to the content pool based on topic representation levels, rather than continuous real-time adjustments. By setting update intervals and monitoring thresholds, the system maintains high user engagement through regular content optimization while reducing resource allocation overhead by avoiding constant modifications. The periodic action allows batch processing of content adjustments, improving efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentUS11048764B2Managing under—and over-represented content topics in content pools
Publication Date: 2021.06.29 YAHOO ASSETS LLC
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AI summary

The present teaching, which includes methods, systems and computer-readable media, relates to techniques to manage representation of a content topic in a content pool. The disclosed techniques may include determining availability of content related to the content topic based on a set of content items in the content pool, and determining a level of interest of a set of users in the content topic based at least on information related to interaction of the set of users with the set of content items. A level of representation of the content topic in the content pool may be determined based at least on the determined availability of content and the determined level of interest. Based on the level of representation, at least some of the set of content items related to the content topic may be updated, e.g., content items may be added to or removed from the content pool.