Feed Prioritization via Tag-Profile Matching for Mobile Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile devices have limited screen real estate and lack control over content feeds, such as RSS, making it difficult to prioritize and efficiently display a large number of feeds, unlike desktop computers.
Innovation Solution
A system that detects tags associated with content feeds, compares them to user profiles, and ranks feeds based on matching properties, allowing only relevant feeds to be displayed on mobile devices, with the option to re-rank feeds based on user interaction and location.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If all content feeds are displayed on mobile device screen, then complete information is provided to user, but screen real estate is exceeded and user interface becomes cluttered
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and displays only the most relevant feeds based on user profile matching, removing irrelevant feeds from the display. This resolves the contradiction by showing sufficient information without exceeding screen capacity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different quality levels to different feeds based on their relevance to the user profile. High-relevance feeds receive prominent display positions while lower-relevance feeds are either omitted or displayed less prominently, optimizing screen usage.
2Ease of operation
If prioritization algorithm is implemented, then relevant feeds are prioritized, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary matching between feed tags and user profile properties before display, pre-processing the prioritization logic. This reduces runtime complexity while maintaining ease of operation by establishing relevance rankings in advance.
3Productivity
If feed listing is optimized for mobile screen, then display efficiency improves, but control over content selection is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic feed selection that adapts to both screen constraints and user preferences. The system dynamically adjusts which feeds are displayed based on the matching between feed tags and user profile properties, maintaining versatility within mobile display limitations.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques for providing prioritized content to a mobile device include detecting, for each feed of a number of feeds delivered to the mobile device through a portal, one or more associated tags, each tag comprising a keyword; comparing the one or more tags associated with the feeds to one or more properties associated with a user profile of a user in the portal; ranking, based on the comparison, the feeds to define a ranked list of feeds; and preparing a subset of the ranked list of feeds for display on the mobile device.