Personalized Content Delivery via Profile and Context Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Content provider systems often fail to deliver the most suitable content for users or devices due to unrecognized suitable content and unidentifiable desirable content, and they do not select content in appropriate formats considering device constraints like screen size, bandwidth, storage, and processing capability.

Innovation Solution

A method and device that identify profile and context information for a requesting device to obtain customized content from a content provider, adjusting for device constraints and recommending additional related content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If content provider systems select and provide stored content based on simple request matching, then the system complexity is low, but the content suitability for users and devices is poor

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent suitabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the content delivery system into multiple components: a content management computing apparatus that analyzes profile and context information, a content provider device that stores content, and a requesting computing device. This segmentation allows complex analysis to be performed centrally while keeping individual components relatively simple, resolving the contradiction between content suitability and system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-analyzing profile information about users and context information about devices before content delivery. The content management computing apparatus processes this information in advance to identify suitable content and optimal formats, so that when content is requested, the selection can be made quickly and accurately without requiring complex real-time processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If content provider systems deliver content without considering device constraints, then the delivery process is simple and fast, but the content format appropriateness is poor

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveformat appropriatenessVSAvoiddelivery process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by tailoring the content format specifically to the constraints of each requesting device. The content management computing apparatus analyzes context information including screen size, available bandwidth, storage capacity, and processing capability, then selects and provides stored content in formats optimized for each specific device's characteristics, ensuring format appropriateness without requiring complete redesign of the delivery process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Ease of operation

If content provider systems only provide directly requested content, then the system operation is simple, but the user experience is poor due to missed relevant content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem operation simplicityVSAvoiduser experience quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses feedback mechanisms by analyzing profile information about user preferences, behavior patterns, and interests. The content management computing apparatus processes this feedback information to identify related stored content that may not have been directly requested but would be desirable to provide to the user, thereby enhancing user experience while maintaining relatively simple system operation through automated analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS8868680B2Methods for recommending personalized content based on profile and context information and devices thereof
Publication Date: 2014.10.21 INFOSYS LTD
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  • US8868680B2 patent drawing
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AI summary

A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus that identifies profile information for a received request associated with an end user at a requesting computing device and context information associated with the requesting computing device. Customized content responsive to the received request is obtained from a content provider device based on the identified profile information and the identified context information. The obtained customized content is providing to the requesting computing device.