Content Management Server Latency Reduction via Contingent Recommendations

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current data transmission systems experience latency issues in providing data packets to user devices, which can lead to increased processing time and reduced efficiency in content delivery networks.

Innovation Solution

A system that includes a user profile database and a content library database, with a content management server that uses a recommendation engine to generate contingent recommendations based on user responses, reducing latency by pre-selecting next actions and data packets before user input is received.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If the system waits for user response before selecting next actions, then response accuracy is improved, but system latency increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse accuracyVSAvoidsystem latency
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system generates multiple contingent recommendations in advance, each corresponding to a different possible user response. This preliminary action allows the system to have pre-prepared next actions ready, eliminating the need to wait for user response before selecting the next action, thus reducing system latency while maintaining response accuracy through selective contingency matching

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically selects from multiple pre-generated contingent recommendations based on the actual user response received. Instead of a static single-path approach, the system adapts by choosing the appropriate contingency that matches the user's actual response, ensuring accuracy while having prepared multiple paths in advance to avoid latency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If the system generates multiple contingent recommendations, then adaptability to user responses is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to user responsesVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the recommendation generation into multiple independent contingent recommendations, each tied to a specific possible user response. This segmentation allows the complex task of handling all possible responses to be divided into manageable, independent contingencies that can be generated and stored separately, then selected based on actual user input

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS11115493B2Systems and methods for decreasing latency in data packet provision
Publication Date: 2021.09.07 PEARSON EDUCATION INC
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AI summary

A system and method for decreasing latency in providing a data packet to a user device subsequent to receipt of an electronic signal from the user device are disclosed herein. The system can include memory including: a user profile database; and a content library database. The system can include a user device including: a network interface; and an I/O subsystem. The system can include a content management server. The content management server can: provide a data packet to the user device; request generation of a contingent recommendation; receive the contingent recommendation; receive an electronic signal including a user response; select a next action; and provide the next action to the user device.