Content Relevance Scoring and Feedback Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face challenges in finding relevant content within social networks due to the vast amount of information, leading to inefficiencies in accessing and processing content.

Innovation Solution

A server system identifies and displays relevant content to users by applying relevance criteria, adjusts relevance scores based on user feedback, and organizes content items according to these scores for improved accessibility.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If all content items are provided to users in a social network, then the quantity of available content increases, but the difficulty of finding relevant content increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequantity of contentVSAvoiddifficulty of finding relevant content
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the vast content into categorized groups (e.g., news, entertainment, sports) and further divides them into relevant and irrelevant subsets based on user profiles. This segmentation allows users to navigate organized content categories rather than searching through all content indiscriminately, resolving the contradiction between content quantity and findability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary filtering system that automatically separates relevant content from irrelevant content based on user profiles, preferences, and behavior patterns. This intermediary layer processes the relationship between users and content, presenting only relevant items to users while maintaining access to the full content library, thus solving the information overload problem.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If conventional methods are used to access content, then all content items are available, but the efficiency of accessing relevant content decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveefficiency of accessing contentVSAvoidtime to find relevant content
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and categorizing content according to user profiles before users request it. User profiles are created in advance with preferences and interests, and content is pre-filtered and organized into relevant categories based on these profiles. When users access the system, the filtering and organization work is already complete, eliminating the need for users to manually search through irrelevant content and significantly reducing time loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If relevance criteria are applied to filter content, then relevant content is identified more accurately, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of relevance identificationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs parameter changes by utilizing multiple variables in the relevance determination process, including user profile attributes, content characteristics, interaction history, and preference weights. By dynamically adjusting and combining these parameters, the system achieves accurate relevance identification. The complexity is managed through structured algorithms that systematically process these parameters rather than ad-hoc filtering methods.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10798139B2Methods and systems for accessing relevant content
Publication Date: 2020.10.06 META PLATFORMS INC
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AI summary

A server system sends links to content categories for display on a user device associated with a user. Each content category corresponds to a subset of content items. When a link to one of the content categories is selected, the corresponding subset of the content items is sent for display on the user device. The system selects a group of content items according to determined relevance scores for the user based on one or more relevance criteria and sends links to the content items in the group for display on the user device in a first order according to the relevance scores. The system adjusts the relevance scores of some content items in the group according to user feedback and resends links to the content items in the group for display on the user device in a second order according to the adjusted relevance scores.