Conversational Agent Content Promotion via User Profile Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

The inefficiency in promoting media content to consumers due to lack of familiarity or reluctance to try new content, leading to variance in popularity, necessitates an automated system to effectively recommend and engage users.

Innovation Solution

An automated conversational agent system that utilizes a content metadata library, user profile database, and content recommendation engine to initiate and sustain dialogs with users, recommending content based on their consumption history and preferences through a conversational interface, including predetermined phrases and phrase templates.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If traditional content promotion methods are used, then content can be distributed to consumers, but consumer engagement and interaction with content remain low due to lack of familiarity or reluctance to try new content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent consumption rateVSAvoiduser willingness to engage
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback loops by analyzing user consumption history, preferences, and interactions to continuously refine and personalize content recommendations. The conversational agent learns from user responses and adjusts recommendations accordingly, creating a dynamic feedback mechanism that improves engagement over time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The conversational agent autonomously initiates dialogues with users, recommends content based on analyzed user profiles, and adapts recommendations without requiring users to actively search or request content. The system serves itself by automatically managing the promotion and recommendation process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If resources are devoted to developing new content, then content quality and variety improve, but the efficiency of promoting that content to consumers decreases due to lack of familiarity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent varietyVSAvoidcontent promotion efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of user profiles, consumption history, and preferences before promoting content. The conversational agent prepares personalized recommendations in advance based on user characteristics, ensuring that content promotion is pre-tailored to individual users rather than using generic approaches.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies local quality by providing personalized content recommendations tailored to each user's specific preferences, consumption history, and profile characteristics. Rather than uniform promotion, each user receives customized content suggestions that match their individual tastes and behaviors.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Productivity

If automated recommendation systems are implemented, then content promotion efficiency improves, but the complexity of the system increases due to multiple components required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent promotion efficiencyVSAvoidsystem architecture complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges multiple functions into the conversational agent platform, combining user profile analysis, content recommendation, dialogue management, and engagement tracking into a single integrated system. This consolidation reduces overall system complexity compared to having separate systems for each function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The conversational agent serves multiple functions simultaneously: it analyzes user profiles, generates content recommendations, engages users through dialogue, and tracks consumption patterns. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate specialized systems, reducing complexity while maintaining comprehensive capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS10856041B2Content promotion using a conversational agent
Publication Date: 2020.12.01 DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC
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AI summary

A content promotion system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a conversational agent software code. The hardware processor executes the conversational agent software code to receive user identification data, obtain user profile data including a content consumption history of a user associated with the user identification data, and identify a first predetermined phrase for use in interacting with the user based on the user profile data. In addition, the conversational agent software code initiates a dialog with the user based on the first predetermined phrase, detects a response or non-response to the dialog, updates the user profile data based on the response or non-response, resulting in updated user profile data, identifies a second predetermined phrase for use in interacting with the user based on the updated user profile data, and continues the dialog with the user based on the second predetermined phrase.