Messaging Token Wallets Using Hidden Metrics for Content Variety
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing messaging applications reward content creation transparently, leading to a reduction in content quality and variety, as users create content primarily to maximize rewards rather than creativity or engagement.
Innovation Solution
Implement a restricted use token system that computes token values based on performance metrics, which are hidden from users, and allows tokens to be exchanged for real-world currency or specific usages, promoting diverse content creation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If transparent reward mechanisms are used, then users can understand how they are rewarded, but content quality and variety decrease as users create content primarily to maximize rewards
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer between the user and the reward mechanism by using hidden performance metrics and black-box algorithms. This intermediary obscures the direct relationship between user actions and rewards, preventing users from optimizing content solely for reward maximization while still providing transparent feedback through the token system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of reward transparency from 'fully transparent' to 'partially hidden'. By making performance metrics and reward calculations non-transparent to users, the system alters the incentive structure to encourage diverse content creation rather than reward-chasing behavior.
2Object-generated harmful factors
If hidden performance metrics are used, then content variety increases, but users cannot understand what makes content successful
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where users receive token rewards based on hidden performance metrics. While the specific metrics are concealed, the token system provides indirect feedback about content performance, allowing users to understand relative success without knowing the exact calculation criteria, thus maintaining content variety.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms the feedback parameter from 'transparent metrics' to 'hidden metrics with token rewards'. This parameter change maintains the informational feedback loop necessary for user engagement while preventing users from reverse-engineering the reward system to create only high-reward content.
3Productivity
If tokens can be exchanged for real-world currency, then user motivation increases, but the system becomes vulnerable to exploitation and spam
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the redemption parameter from 'direct currency exchange' to 'restricted usage options'. Users can exchange tokens for non-monetary rewards such as platform features, virtual goods, or service credits, which maintains motivation while reducing the incentive for exploitation and spam compared to direct cash rewards.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary conversion layer between tokens and real-world value. Instead of direct currency exchange, tokens are converted into platform-specific value (features, services, virtual goods), which maintains user motivation while creating barriers to exploitation and reducing spam incentives.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving, by a messaging application, content from a given user; selecting a metric for measuring performance of the content on the messaging application; measuring performance of the content on the messaging application; computing a value of the performance of the content on the messaging application based on the selected metric; and updating a restricted use token wallet stored in a profile for the given user based on the computed value of the performance of the content.