Dynamic Tag Weight Adjustment for Collaboration Content Relevance

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Solution Overview

Problem

In collaboration platforms, content tagging inaccuracies lead to irrelevant information being disseminated to participants, hindering efficient content retrieval and operational efficiency.

Innovation Solution

A system that adjusts the weight of content tags based on a collective relevance factor derived from the profiles of recipients within a group, ensuring that content is relevant to the shared audience by modifying existing tag weights and suggesting additional tags.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Extent of automation

If content is tagged based on keywords, characters or symbols in the content, then tagging can be performed automatically, but content can be mis-tagged resulting in irrelevant information being obtained and disseminated

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomatic taggingVSAvoidtagging accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Extent of automationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by adjusting tag weights based on recipient behavior data. When recipients interact with content (viewing, sharing, saving), this feedback is used to recalculate and refine tag weights, improving tagging accuracy over time while maintaining automatic operation. The feedback loop continuously optimizes the automatic tagging system without requiring manual intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs self-service by automatically adjusting tag weights based on collected recipient behavior data without requiring manual tagging correction. The algorithm autonomously identifies mis-tagged content and reweights tags based on actual recipient engagement patterns, enabling the system to self-correct tagging inaccuracies while maintaining automatic operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If tag weights are adjusted based on recipient profiles and collective relevance factors, then content relevancy is improved, but system complexity increases

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

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies universality by using a multi-functional relevance factor calculation that serves multiple purposes: it determines content distribution, adjusts tag weights, and prioritizes search results. This single collective relevance factor mechanism handles multiple functions that would otherwise require separate systems, reducing overall complexity while improving content relevancy through recipient profile analysis.

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

3Adaptability or versatility

If extensive content is shared among participants, then collaboration capability is enhanced, but finding relevant content becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecollaboration capabilityVSAvoidcontent retrieval time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes parameters by dynamically adjusting tag weights based on recipient profiles and collective relevance factors. Instead of using static tags, the system modifies tag weight parameters in real-time based on recipient engagement data, enabling efficient content retrieval even as content volume increases. This parameter adjustment allows participants to quickly find relevant content without manual searching through extensive collaborations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS8977698B2Tagging content within a networking environment based upon recipients receiving the content
Publication Date: 2015.03.10 CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC
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AI summary

A networking environment accessible by a plurality of computing devices is established to facilitate communications between participants associated with the computing devices, where content is generated and shared by participants via the networking environment. An item of content is shared with a group of recipients associated with computing devices via the networking environment, where the shared item of content includes one or more tags associated with the content, and each tag includes an initial weight value associated with the tag. A relevance factor associated with the group is determined, where the relevance factor is based upon information obtained from profiles of recipients from the group, and the initial weight value of each tag associated with the shared item of content is adjusted based at least in part upon the collective relevance factor associated with the group.