Dynamic Content Recommendation Parameter Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Content distribution systems face challenges in providing relevant content recommendations due to the dynamic nature of user interests and the staleness of existing content, as new content is released and user preferences change over time.

Innovation Solution

A system that continuously selects different values within predefined ranges for various recommendation algorithms, monitors user behavior, and iteratively adjusts these values to provide updated content recommendations, ensuring relevance by weighting parameters such as popularity, recency, and critic scores.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If fixed parameter values are used for content recommendation algorithms, then the system is simple to operate, but the content recommendations become stale and lose relevance to users over time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverelevance of content recommendationsVSAvoidcomplexity of recommendation system
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic parameter adjustment by continuously selecting different values within predefined ranges for recommendation algorithm parameters. Instead of using fixed values, the system dynamically adapts parameters based on user behavior monitoring and iterative adjustments, ensuring content recommendations remain relevant to changing user interests and new content releases.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms by monitoring user behavior on recommended content and using this information to iteratively adjust parameter values. The monitoring component tracks user interactions, and this feedback is fed back into the recommendation system to refine parameter selections, creating a closed-loop system that continuously improves recommendation relevance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If the system continuously adjusts recommendation parameters to adapt to changing user interests, then content relevance is maintained, but the computational resources and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to user interest changesVSAvoidcomputational energy consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs parameter changes within predefined ranges rather than completely recalculating recommendation models. By selecting different values within established parameter ranges and iteratively adjusting them based on user behavior, the system achieves adaptability to changing user interests while constraining computational resources through bounded search spaces and incremental adjustments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If multiple algorithms with different parameter values are used to generate content recommendations, then the quality and relevance of recommendations improve, but the system complexity and difficulty of operation increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprecision of content matchingVSAvoidease of system operation
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the recommendation system into distinct functional components: multiple recommendation algorithms with different parameter values, a monitoring component for tracking user behavior, and an adjustment mechanism for iteratively refining parameters. This segmentation allows each component to operate independently with specialized functions, improving measurement precision through diverse algorithmic approaches while managing system complexity through modular architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20240251135A1Systems and methods for providing content recommendations
Publication Date: 2024.07.25 ADEIA GUIDES INC
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AI summary

Systems and associated methods are described for providing content recommendations. The system receives a plurality of sets of range values, each of which corresponds to a respective one of a plurality of parameters for recommending the content. The system selects different values within each of the plurality of sets of range values over time and provides a plurality of content recommendations to users based on the selected different values. The system then analyze users' behavior in response to the provided plurality of content recommendations. The system further updates at least one set of range values based on the analyzed users' behavior.