ML Content Stack Graph for Unified Content Access

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing digital content systems are inflexible and inefficient, requiring separate applications for accessing different types of content items and consuming excessive computer resources due to rigid folder-and-file hierarchies and inefficient user interfaces.

Innovation Solution

A content stack generation system that utilizes a stack formulation graph and a large language model to generate a content stack relevant to a user's needs, integrating access to various content items within a single interface and reducing the need for multiple applications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If separate applications are used for accessing stored content items, web-based content items, and communication, then each application can be optimized for its specific function, but the system becomes inflexible and requires excessive computer resources

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem flexibilityVSAvoidnumber of applications
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple separate applications (file management, web browsing, communication tools) into a single integrated digital content system. This unified system provides access to stored content items, web-based content items, and communication functionalities through one application interface, thereby improving system flexibility while reducing the complexity of managing multiple separate applications

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a universal digital content system that performs multiple functions: accessing stored content items through organized directories, accessing web-based content items through integrated web browsers, and facilitating communication between user accounts. This multi-functional approach allows a single application to replace multiple specialized applications, improving adaptability while maintaining organized functionality

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

2Productivity

If separate applications are run for different content access tasks, then each application can operate independently, but excessive computer resources such as processing power and memory are consumed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource efficiencyVSAvoidcomputer resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

By merging multiple application functions into a single integrated system, the patent eliminates the overhead of running multiple separate application processes. The unified system shares common resources such as memory space, processing threads, and data storage structures, thereby reducing overall computer resource consumption while maintaining productivity across all content access tasks

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Ease of operation

If traditional folder-and-file hierarchy navigation is used, then content items can be organized systematically, but many navigational operations are required to access desired content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent access efficiencyVSAvoidnavigational operations time
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a new dimension to content access by implementing a search functionality that operates parallel to the traditional folder-and-file hierarchy. Instead of requiring sequential drill-down navigation through multiple folder levels, users can directly search for content items using keywords, tags, or metadata, thereby significantly reducing the time and number of navigational operations required while maintaining the systematic organization of the folder structure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS20250342211A1Generating and providing content stacks utilizing machine-learning models
Publication Date: 2025.11.06 DROPBOX INC
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for generating a content stack utilizing one or more machine-learning models. In some implementations, the disclosed systems generate and provide, to a user account, a content stack that includes content items corresponding to a topic prompt for the user account. For instance, in some implementations, the disclosed systems utilize content-based signals and account-based signals to generate an account-specific stack formulation graph that represents a plurality of content items and relationships of the content items with each other and with the user account. Additionally, in some implementations, the disclosed systems analyze the account-specific stack formulation graph to generate a content stack from the plurality of content items, the content stack comprising a set of content items corresponding to the topic prompt.