Content Sorting and Composing for Personalized Digital Reading
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inconvenience and expense when purchasing electronic books and magazines, as they must buy entire publications to access desired articles, and content is not arranged according to personal preferences.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system that includes a storing element, managing element, reading element, sorting element, and composing element to arrange content data in accordance with user preferences, allowing users to purchase and view desired content items independently and in preferred sequences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If users purchase entire magazines to access desired articles, then users can access all articles in the publication, but users incur unnecessary expenses for unwanted articles
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the magazine content into individual article units that can be independently selected and purchased. Instead of requiring users to buy entire magazines, the system allows selection of specific articles based on user preferences, thereby eliminating unnecessary expenditures on unwanted content while maintaining access to desired articles.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the desired articles from the complete magazine publication. Users can selectively purchase and access only the specific articles they want, separating the valuable content from the unwanted portions of the magazine, thus avoiding unnecessary expenses.
2Stability of the object's composition
If articles are arranged in fixed publication sequence, then the original editorial structure is maintained, but users must turn through many unwanted pages to reach desired articles
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces dynamic reordering of articles based on user preferences. While the original editorial sequence is preserved in the database, the system dynamically rearranges the display order of articles according to individual user preferences, allowing users to immediately access desired articles without navigating through unwanted content.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary sorting of articles according to user preferences before presentation. By pre-organizing articles based on user-defined criteria, the system eliminates the need for users to manually search through pages, directly presenting the desired articles in an optimized sequence.
3Reliability
If users must purchase entire magazines, then publishers maintain stable revenue from each publication, but user willingness to purchase decreases due to high costs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the purchase unit from entire magazines to individual articles, allowing users to buy only what they need at lower cost points. This increases user purchase willingness while the system compensates publishers for each individual article sale, maintaining revenue stability through aggregated micro-transactions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the transaction parameters from fixed magazine prices to variable article-level pricing. Users can purchase articles individually or in combinations, flexibly adjusting their spending according to budget and interest, thereby increasing purchase willingness while publishers receive compensated access fees for each viewed article.
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: a storing element for storing content data; a managing element for managing preference data by which to determine preferences of a user; a reading element for reading the content data from the storing element in response to an instruction from the user; a sorting element for sorting the content data read by the reading element, in accordance with the preference data managed by the managing element; and a composing element for composing the content data sorted by the sorting element, into a single item ready to be handled by the user.