Personalized News Briefing Generation via Event Map Matching

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face challenges in efficiently obtaining high-quality, timely news content amidst information overload, as existing systems fail to provide personalized and timely news dissemination effectively, impacting user experience and commercial value.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus for generating a briefing that determines a user's target news category based on historical accessing data, matches it with a preset event map, extracts news abstracts, and selects relevant content to create a personalized and timely news briefing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If users access multiple news sources to obtain comprehensive news content, then the quantity of news content increases, but the time consumption and information processing burden increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequantity of news contentVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts essential information from multiple news sources by automatically generating abstracts and selecting key content. The briefing generation device extracts core news points, summaries, and important information from numerous sources, delivering comprehensive news coverage in a condensed format that eliminates the need for users to read full articles from multiple sources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates simplified copies of news content in the form of structured briefings. Instead of requiring users to access original multiple news sources, the system generates condensed copies containing essential information, key points, and summaries that replicate the value of reading multiple sources while saving significant time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Adaptability or versatility

If news content is personalized according to user preferences, then user satisfaction improves, but the complexity of the recommendation system increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization levelVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-collecting user preference data, historical reading behavior, and interest categories before generating briefings. User profiles and preference settings are established in advance, allowing the system to automatically personalize content selection without complex real-time processing during briefing generation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary layer between raw news content and user delivery through structured briefing templates and classification systems. News content is transformed into standardized briefing formats with categories, tags, and structured layouts that simplify the personalization process while maintaining adaptability to user preferences.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Loss of information

If comprehensive news coverage is provided, then information completeness improves, but the difficulty of information processing increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidinformation processing difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments comprehensive news content into organized briefings with distinct sections, categories, and hierarchical structures. News information is divided into topic-based groups, priority levels, and structured formats that maintain completeness while reducing processing difficulty through systematic organization and classification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10853433B2Method and device for generating briefing
Publication Date: 2020.12.01 BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCI & TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure provides a method and a device for generating a briefing, the method includes: determining a target news category of a user according to historical accessing data of the user; matching the target news category with a preset event map, to obtain a plurality of pieces of news related to the target news category; extracting a news abstract from each news, to obtain a plurality of news abstracts; selecting a part of news abstracts from the plurality of news abstracts, and generating the briefing based on the part of news abstracts.