Digital Magazine Server Co-Contributor Content Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Digital magazines generated by a single user often lack depth and variety in content, leading to limited user interaction and engagement.
Innovation Solution
A digital magazine server retrieves content from multiple sources and generates personalized sections based on user selections, allowing users to invite co-contributors and dynamically rank content items for inclusion, using page templates to optimize presentation and user interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If a section is created by a single user, then the section is simple to manage, but the content lacks depth and variety
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the section creation and management process into distinct roles: primary users who create sections and co-contributors who add content. This segmentation allows multiple users to contribute content variety while maintaining clear management hierarchies, resolving the contradiction between content depth and management simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple user contributions into a single unified section. Co-contributors can add content items to sections created by primary users, merging diverse content sources while maintaining section integrity through the primary user's curatorial control.
2Quantity of substance
If multiple users contribute content to a section, then content depth and variety increase, but user coordination complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent assigns different levels of access and permission to different users within the same section. Primary users have full curatorial control while co-contributors have more limited content addition rights. This local differentiation of permissions enables deep content collaboration while simplifying coordination through role-based access control.
3Productivity
If content items are dynamically ranked and personalized, then user engagement increases, but processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary ranking and personalization of content items based on user attributes and preferences before presenting them to users. By pre-processing and organizing content according to individual user profiles, the system enables high engagement without requiring complex real-time processing during user interaction.
Data Source
AI summary
A digital magazine server receives a request from a user to create a section of a digital magazine including information identifying additional users authorized to modify content included in the section. For example, the request includes information identifying specific additional users or includes attributes associated with additional users. Based on information in the request, the digital magazine server identifies the additional users authorized to modify the content included in the section and notifies the additional user of their authorization to modify content included in the section. A modification to content included in the section is received from an additional user (e.g., identifying a content item, modifying content of a content item in the section), with the section generated based at least in part on the received modification. When the section is presented to digital magazine server users, the additional user providing the modification is also identified.