Personalized Media Presentation Templates for Music Recommendation Systems

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current music recommendation systems focus primarily on developing algorithms to suggest music based on user preferences but neglect the presentation of these recommendations, leading to a suboptimal user experience.

Innovation Solution

A method that involves obtaining user recommendation data to select and organize presentation templates with media asset slots, which are then associated with recommended content, allowing for a tailored graphical user interface that corresponds to the user's preferences and context.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If complex algorithms are used to generate personalized music recommendations, then recommendation accuracy is improved, but user experience is worsened due to poor presentation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecommendation accuracyVSAvoiduser experience
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the recommendation delivery into distinct components: recommendation generation algorithms and presentation templates. Multiple presentation templates are created, each optimized for different user preferences, contexts, or device types. This segmentation allows the complex recommendation logic to remain accurate while the presentation layer adapts to improve user experience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically selects and switches between different presentation templates based on user behavior, context, or preferences. Rather than using a static presentation format, the system adapts the presentation dynamically to match the user's current state or historical patterns, thereby improving ease of operation without compromising recommendation accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Device complexity

If a single presentation template is used for all users, then system complexity is reduced, but personalization is worsened

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem complexityVSAvoidpersonalization
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple presentation templates are designed to serve different user segments, contexts, or device types. Each template is optimized for its specific purpose, allowing the system to provide highly personalized presentations across diverse scenarios. This multi-functionality approach enables the system to adapt to various user needs without requiring a completely custom solution for each case.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes presentation parameters (such as layout, content selection, ordering, or visual style) based on user characteristics or context. By adjusting these parameters across different templates, the system achieves high personalization while maintaining a manageable set of predefined template structures, thus balancing complexity and adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple presentation templates are created for different user preferences, then personalization is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovepersonalizationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The presentation system is segmented into modular templates that can be independently designed, stored, and selected. Each template encapsulates a specific presentation style or configuration, allowing the system to offer multiple personalized options without creating monolithic complexity. This modular segmentation makes the system more manageable despite having multiple templates.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Multiple presentation templates are pre-configured and stored in advance, each optimized for specific user types or contexts. When a user interacts with the system, the appropriate pre-configured template is selected and applied, eliminating the need for real-time complex decision-making or dynamic generation of presentation formats. This preliminary preparation reduces operational complexity while maintaining high personalization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10664520B2Personalized media presentation templates
Publication Date: 2020.05.26 APPLE INC
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AI summary

The techniques utilize a user's recommendation data to choose a presentation template. Each presentation template includes a plurality of media asset slots, each of which is associated with a certain type of media asset. For example, each media asset slot generally may be assigned to a playlist, album, composer, or music video. Further, each of these general assignments may further specify that the playlist, album, composer, or music video be from a known artist, familiar artist, recommended artist, or unknown artist, for example. Once the appropriate presentation template has been chosen along with the recommended media content for each of the plurality of media asset slots, the media asset slots are associated with the selected media content. The presentation template is then utilized to generate a graphical user interface that may be delivered to the display of an electronic device for presentation to a user, where the order in which the recommended media content is presented via the graphical user interface corresponds to the order of the media asset slots of the chosen presentation template.