Lock Screen Content Personalization for Higher User Engagement

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing digital content applications on user devices provide generic push notifications that are not tailored to individual user preferences, leading to poor engagement as users ignore non-personalized content.

Innovation Solution

A system utilizing artificial intelligence models to generate personalized content, including summaries, headlines, and images, based on user preferences and interaction history, which is automatically presented on a user device's lock screen without manual intervention.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If generic push notifications are sent to all users, then the system can maintain simple operation and low device complexity, but user engagement deteriorates because content does not align with individual preferences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesimplicity of content deliveryVSAvoiduser engagement rate
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by collecting user preference data and interaction history before generating push notifications. AI models analyze this data in advance to create personalized content recommendations, so that when notifications are sent, they are already tailored to each user's interests without requiring real-time processing during delivery

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies local quality by customizing different aspects of the push notification content for different user segments. Instead of uniform generic notifications, the system varies the content, timing, and type of notifications based on individual user preferences, behaviors, and device characteristics, making each notification locally optimized for its target user

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Productivity

If personalized content is generated using AI models, then user engagement improves through tailored content, but device complexity and processing requirements worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser engagement rateVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary layer (AI models and processing servers) between the content source and the user device. The complex AI-based personalization logic resides in this intermediary layer rather than on the user device itself, allowing sophisticated content generation while keeping the user device relatively simple. The intermediary processes user data, generates personalized content, and delivers it to devices without requiring the devices to perform complex computations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces traditional mechanical content delivery mechanisms (manual content creation and distribution) with AI-based automated systems. Machine learning models automatically analyze user behavior patterns and generate personalized content recommendations, substituting human effort and complex manual processes with intelligent algorithms that scale more efficiently

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Measurement precision

If users manually navigate applications to find preferred content, then content selection precision improves, but time consumption worsens due to complex interface navigation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent selection accuracyVSAvoidtime to find content
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service by enabling users to passively receive personalized content recommendations without active searching or navigation. The AI system continuously monitors user interactions and automatically generates and delivers relevant content to the user's device, allowing users to consume content without manually browsing through applications or interfaces

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback loops where user interactions with content (clicks, views, time spent) are continuously collected and fed back to the AI models. This feedback refines the personalization algorithms, improving content selection accuracy over time while maintaining automatic delivery, thus preserving both precision and time efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12530394B2Generating personalized content for presentation on user devices
Publication Date: 2026.01.20 GLANCE INMOBI PTE LIMITED
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AI summary

Provided is a system and method for digital content generation and recommendation. A first plurality of stories are collected from various content sources over a network. A second plurality of stories are selected from the first plurality of stories such that a degree of similarity between any two stories of the second plurality of stories is below a determined threshold. A summary and a headline are generated for a first story of the second plurality of stories. A set of images are selected, from an image database, for the first story based on the generated summary and headline. A multimedia item including the summary, the headline, and a first image of the set of images is created. The multimedia item is presented on a lock screen interface of a user device, displaying the generated summary, the generated headline, and the first image on the lock screen interface.