Email Filtering System for Targeted Message Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in managing and unsubscribing from multiple information services provided by entities, as personal information is often misused or disclosed without permission, and it is tedious to identify and unsubscribe from each subscription.
Innovation Solution
A system that generates user profiles based on user activity and preferences, allowing for targeted message transmission to subscribed email accounts, ensuring that messages are relevant and reducing unnecessary subscriptions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users subscribe to multiple information services to receive relevant information, then information relevance is improved, but personal information security deteriorates due to potential misuse or disclosure without permission
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system (email filtering system) that acts as a mediator between information services and users. This system analyzes incoming emails, identifies promotional or informational content, and selectively forwards relevant messages while filtering out unwanted ones, thereby protecting user privacy without sacrificing information relevance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables users to automatically manage their information subscriptions by analyzing email content and autonomously unsubscribing from services that send unwanted promotional material. This self-service mechanism reduces the need for users to manually manage subscriptions while maintaining control over information relevance.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If users manually manage and unsubscribe from each information service, then personal information security is improved, but time consumption increases due to the tedious process
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis of email content to identify promotional messages and automatically extract subscription information before users need to take action. By pre-processing and categorizing emails, the system prepares the groundwork for automatic unsubscribing, eliminating the need for users to manually review and manage each subscription.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically manages unsubscribing from information services by analyzing email content, identifying subscription sources, and executing unsubscription actions without user intervention. This self-service approach maintains personal information security while completely eliminating the time-consuming manual management process.
3Quantity of substance
If all subscribed email accounts receive all messages from information services, then message coverage is improved, but message relevance deteriorates due to receiving unnecessary promotional information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by treating different email accounts and messages differently based on their specific characteristics. The system analyzes each email's content, sender, and user preferences to selectively forward only relevant messages to specific email accounts, rather than applying a uniform distribution approach. This ensures that each user receives personalized, relevant information while maintaining comprehensive coverage of subscribed services.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically changes the parameter of message distribution by analyzing email content characteristics and user preferences. Instead of static one-to-all message forwarding, the system adjusts message routing decisions based on content analysis results, user profiles, and relevance criteria, thereby optimizing message relevance while preserving coverage of important information.
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AI summary
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for selecting messages for transmission to client devices are provided. A first message associated with a first entity may be received from a first client device. The first message may comprise information associated with the first entity. A user account database, comprising a plurality of user profiles, may be analyzed based upon the first message to select a set of user accounts, from a plurality of user accounts, for transmission of a set of messages associated with the first message. The plurality of user accounts may be subscribed to an information service. Each user profile of the plurality of user profiles may comprise information corresponding to a user account of the plurality of user account. The set of messages may be transmitted to the set of user accounts.