Dynamic Content Item Eligibility for Personalized Events

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Solution Overview

Problem

The challenge of efficiently presenting content items of interest to individual users is exacerbated by the large number of available items and limited screen space, necessitating improved methods for determining and prioritizing content items for events.

Innovation Solution

A system dynamically determines eligible content items for events based on user preferences, regional and global rankings, and content item data, continuously monitoring changes in content item attributes to ensure relevance and eligibility, and customizes presentation based on user attributes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the number of available content items is increased, then user choice and content variety are improved, but the difficulty of presenting relevant items and screen space utilization deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent varietyVSAvoidcontent presentation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors content item attribute changes and dynamically updates event eligibility determinations. When content attributes change, the system re-evaluates eligibility criteria and automatically adjusts event content associations, ensuring relevance without manual intervention and resolving the complexity of managing large content catalogs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically determines content item eligibility for events by evaluating content attributes against event criteria without requiring manual curation. The automated eligibility determination process manages the large number of content items independently, reducing the complexity burden on the presentation layer.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If content items are dynamically determined based on multiple criteria, then relevance and user satisfaction are improved, but the computational complexity and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent relevanceVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-establishes event criteria and content attribute requirements before events occur. By having eligibility criteria defined in advance, the system can efficiently evaluate content items against predetermined standards rather than performing complex real-time analysis, thus maintaining high relevance while reducing computational complexity during event execution.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If the system monitors content item changes continuously, then content eligibility accuracy is improved, but the processing load and energy consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveeligibility determination accuracyVSAvoidprocessing energy
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements periodic monitoring of content item attributes rather than continuous monitoring. Eligibility determinations are updated at scheduled intervals or triggered by specific events, maintaining accurate content-relevance matching while significantly reducing the processing load and energy consumption compared to continuous real-time monitoring.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentUS12437315B2Systems and methods for dynamically determining event content items
Publication Date: 2025.10.07 VALVE CORPORATION
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AI summary

There may be large numbers of content items available at current content provider systems. Subsets of these content items may be eligible to participate in events, such as sales. A content provider system may determine content item eligibility for events using content item data and proactively query vendor systems for participation in such events. The content provider system may iteratively query vendor systems based on an ordered set of eligible content items. The content provider system may monitor content items for updated content items data and proactively query a vendor system if a content item becomes eligible for an event based on updated content item data. Content items associated with a sale may be sorted and presented to a user based on user and/or content item data.