Content Validation Score for Shared Digital Messages

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Solution Overview

Problem

In digital communications, especially on social media platforms, shared content may be altered unintentionally or intentionally, making it difficult for recipients to determine the validity and meaning of the original message, especially when the original content is not accessible to them.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that compares the shared content to the original content, generates a validation score based on the amount and type of changes, and applies formatting techniques to identify changes, such as synonyms, antonyms, and significant modifiers, to determine the validity and display the changes visually.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If content is re-posted or shared by another user, then awareness of the content is extended to additional audiences, but the content may be intentionally or unintentionally altered

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent dissemination efficiencyVSAvoidcontent integrity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary comparison between the original content and the re-posted content before displaying it to users. By pre-identifying changes through text analysis and generating validation scores, the system ensures content integrity is assessed before dissemination, resolving the contradiction between efficient content sharing and maintaining content reliability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides feedback to users about the validity of re-posted content through validation scores and change indicators. This feedback mechanism allows users to understand whether content has been altered, maintaining transparency in the content sharing process while enabling efficient dissemination of information

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If changes are made to re-posted content, then the content can be adapted to different contexts or corrections, but the meaning may no longer be equivalent to the original communication

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent adaptabilityVSAvoidoriginal meaning

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different validation levels to different parts of the content. By identifying specific changed words, phrases, or sentences and providing localized validation scores for each change, the system allows users to understand which specific portions have been modified while preserving the overall adaptability of the content for different contexts

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of content validation by generating numerical validation scores that quantify the degree of alteration. This parameter-based approach allows for nuanced assessment of content changes, enabling users to understand the extent to which the original meaning has been preserved or altered while still allowing adaptive re-posting

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of operation

If users cannot access the original content, then sharing is simplified, but recipients cannot determine the validity of the shared content

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent sharing simplicityVSAvoidcontent validity assessment

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary validation mechanism that acts as a mediator between the original content and the re-posted content. By automatically comparing texts and generating validation scores, this intermediary system provides validity assessment without requiring users to access the original content directly, maintaining ease of sharing while enabling validity detection

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces the mechanical process of manual original content access with an automated text analysis system. By using computational algorithms to compare and validate content, the system eliminates the need for users to physically access or compare original content, simplifying the sharing process while providing automated validity assessment

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS10592497B2Validating content from an original communication included in a new communication

Publication Date: 2020.03.17 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION

AI summary

A method, computer program product, and system for validating content included in an electronic communication is disclosed. A computer receives a new communication that includes content from an original communication. The computer determines if the content included in the new communication includes a change to the original communication. In response to determining that the content includes the change to the original communication, the computer generates a validation score of the new communication, such that the validation score is determined by an amount of match between the content of the new communication and the original communication, and the extent to which the change alters a purport of the original communication.