Media Content Classification via Social Interaction Attributes

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulty in finding relevant media content due to the vast amount of available content, as existing systems lack effective methods to classify and recommend media based on social interactions.

Innovation Solution

Employing a classifier that uses nominally factored social interaction attributes to determine media content classification, allowing for automatic classification without user input, and providing recommendations based on predicted popularity or genre.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If users manually search through vast amounts of media content, then they can find content of interest, but it consumes excessive time and effort

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent relevance accuracyVSAvoidtime to locate content
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary classification of media content using social interaction attributes before users need to search. Classifiers are trained in advance on historical social interaction data to automatically categorize content, so when users search, pre-classified content is immediately available for rapid retrieval based on their preferences.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Social interaction attributes serve as intermediaries between users and media content. Instead of direct user-content matching, the system uses social interaction data (likes, shares, comments) as a mediating layer to infer content relevance, enabling automated recommendations without users manually evaluating each piece of content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If existing classification systems are used, then media content can be organized, but they fail to effectively leverage social interactions for accurate classification

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveclassification accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the parameters used for classification from traditional metadata (titles, descriptions) to social interaction parameters (engagement metrics, interaction patterns). By training classifiers on social interaction attributes, the system adapts classification accuracy while maintaining a relatively simple architecture that can be integrated into existing platforms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Productivity

If automated classification is implemented, then content can be organized quickly, but it requires sophisticated algorithms and data processing

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent classification speedVSAvoidalgorithm complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The classification system is segmented into multiple independent classifiers, each trained on specific social interaction attributes (e.g., one classifier for engagement level, another for content type preferences). This modular approach enables parallel processing of different classification tasks, improving overall speed while keeping individual classifier complexity manageable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS8521679B2Classification recommendation based on social actions
Publication Date: 2013.08.27 R2 SOLUTIONS LLC
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AI summary

Embodiments are directed towards employing a classifier to determine a classification for target media content using nominally factored social interaction attributes, the classifier being trained using a training dataset that includes at least one nominally factored social interaction attribute. The trained classifier determines a classification of the target media content based on nominally factored social interaction attributes obtained during a monitored social interaction with the target media content and one or more users. The classification may include identifying at least one genre for the media content, as well as predicting whether the media content will go viral or not. The classification may also be used to provide recommendation to the one or more users of other media content.