Dynamic Content Sequencing for User Engagement

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional online marketing methods, such as repeatedly exposing users to advertisements, often fail due to user desensitization, reducing their effectiveness as users become less likely to engage with the content.

Innovation Solution

A customizable sequence of content delivery system that uses state information from user interactions to determine which content portion to provide next, based on predefined triggers, allowing for dynamic and personalized content presentation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If content is repeatedly exposed to users through brute force marketing, then the quantity of content delivery increases, but user engagement and effectiveness decrease due to desensitization

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequantity of content deliveryVSAvoiduser engagement effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The content delivery is segmented into a sequence of distinct content portions (first content portion, second content portion, third content portion, etc.) that are presented in a specific order. Each content portion can be independently tailored and triggered by specific user interactions, allowing the system to deliver multiple pieces of content without causing desensitization by varying the presentation while maintaining systematic delivery

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The content delivery system dynamically adapts to user behavior by using state information from previous content interactions to determine which content portion to provide next. The system transitions from static repeated exposure to dynamic personalized sequencing, where the content presentation changes based on real-time user responses and interactions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If a customizable sequence of content is provided based on user state information, then user engagement and personalization improve, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent personalization capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple content portions are pre-defined and prepared in advance with associated triggers and state conditions. The system does not generate content dynamically during interaction but rather selects from pre-prepared content portions based on user state, reducing the complexity of real-time content generation while maintaining personalization capabilities

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses state information from previous content interactions as feedback to determine the next content portion to deliver. This feedback mechanism creates a closed-loop system that adapts to user behavior without requiring complex real-time analysis, as the state information already captures essential user interaction patterns

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS9704178B2Customizable sequence of content
Publication Date: 2017.07.11 ADOBE INC
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AI summary

A request for customized content may be received. Which content portion in a sequence of the customized content to provide may be determined based on state information regarding previous content interactions by a user of the client device. A next content portion in the sequence may then be provided based on that determination. Multiple different sequences may exist such that one of the sequences may be selected to be provided for a given user and/or client device. An effectiveness of the different sequences may be evaluated.