Machine Learning Model for Targeted Content Promotion

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional online systems often deliver content that is not of interest to users, leading to a poor user experience, reduced user loyalty, and decreased motivation for page administrators to promote their content, as they struggle to target users effectively.

Innovation Solution

An online system uses a machine learning model to predict the likelihood that a page administrator is interested in promoting a web page by analyzing features such as user profiles, interactions, and web page data, generating a page administrator score, and selecting page administrators to send targeted content promotion requests.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If conventional online systems deliver content to users without effective targeting, then content delivery coverage is improved, but user experience deteriorates and user loyalty decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent delivery coverageVSAvoiduser experience quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by predicting page administrator scores and identifying likely promoters before delivering content. This advance identification ensures that content is pre-filtered for relevance, so when content is delivered to users, it has already been vetted through the prediction model, maintaining both broad coverage and high quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The prediction model acts as an intermediary between content delivery and user reception. It mediates the content delivery process by evaluating page administrators and their likelihood to promote content, thereby ensuring that only relevant content reaches users, which maintains user experience quality while allowing broad delivery coverage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If online systems deliver content without effective targeting, then content delivery volume is improved, but user loyalty deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent delivery volumeVSAvoiduser loyalty
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary scoring and identification of page administrators who are likely to promote content before actual content delivery. This advance preparation enables high-volume content delivery while maintaining quality control, as the prediction model pre-filters content based on administrator credibility and user relevance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The prediction model incorporates feedback mechanisms by continuously learning from user interactions and page administrator behaviors. This feedback loop ensures that as content delivery volume increases, the system adapts and refines its predictions, maintaining user loyalty even at high delivery volumes by constantly improving targeting accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Quantity of substance

If online systems deliver content without effective targeting, then content distribution is improved, but page administrator motivation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent distribution reachVSAvoidpage administrator motivation
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary identification and scoring of page administrators who are likely to promote content successfully. This advance identification motivates page administrators by showing them that their content has been pre-evaluated and is likely to reach the right audience, increasing their willingness to promote content while maintaining broad distribution reach.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

4Measurement precision

If the system uses machine learning models to predict page administrator interest, then content targeting precision is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent targeting precisionVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The prediction model serves as an intermediary layer that handles the complexity of analyzing page administrator profiles, interactions, and content characteristics. By introducing this intermediate prediction step, the system achieves high targeting precision while containing complexity within the model itself, rather than requiring complex coordination across the entire content delivery system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS10296548B2Delivering content promoting a web page to users of an online system
Publication Date: 2019.05.21 META PLATFORMS INC
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AI summary

An online system maintains a web page associated with one or more page administrators. The online system trains a machine learning model to determine a likelihood of a page administrator account accepting a request for the online system to present content about the web page to other users of the online system. The model uses features extracted from data about the page administrator accounts on the online system, the page administrator interactions with the online system, and the web page. The online system selects one or more page administrator accounts and sends them requests based on the determined likelihood scores. The online system delivers content associated with the web page to users of the online system based on a response to the request.