Open Profile Personalization System with Assisted Modification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing personalization technologies for news and information delivery often require significant user effort to create and maintain profiles, leading to alienation and poor performance due to issues like duplicative articles, which open user profiles have not effectively addressed.

Innovation Solution

A data processing system that utilizes open user profiles with sophisticated content analysis and graphical user interfaces to enable users to easily create, refine, and modify their profiles by selecting and adding typed-attributes, such as entities, topics, and concepts, for improved information filtering and presentation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users are given the ability to edit their own profiles (open profiles), then user control and customization are improved, but system performance and user satisfaction deteriorate due to duplicative articles and poor filtering results

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser profile customizationVSAvoidinformation filtering quality

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary system that acts as a bridge between user profile preferences and information filtering. This intermediary processing layer analyzes user preferences, article content, and delivery history to intelligently match articles to user interests, preventing both duplicative delivery and missed relevant content. The intermediary system translates subjective user preferences into objective filtering criteria without requiring direct user control over the complex filtering logic.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If users are required to create and maintain detailed profiles manually, then profile accuracy may be improved, but user effort and time consumption increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprofile accuracyVSAvoiduser effort for profile maintenance

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service profile creation and maintenance by automatically analyzing user interactions, article reading patterns, and preference selections to generate and update user profiles without requiring manual input. The system serves itself by learning from user behavior and automatically refining profile accuracy over time, eliminating the need for users to spend time maintaining detailed profiles while still achieving high precision.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-analyzing user preferences and article content to establish initial profile configurations and filtering criteria before actual information delivery begins. This preliminary processing establishes accurate baseline profiles that can be automatically refined, reducing the need for ongoing user effort while maintaining high accuracy throughout the information delivery process.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Quantity of substance

If the system delivers more articles to ensure comprehensive coverage, then information completeness is improved, but user overload and alienation increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation volumeVSAvoiduser overload

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by delivering information with varying levels of detail and frequency based on specific user preferences, article relevance, and consumption patterns. Rather than uniform delivery, the system tailors the quantity and quality of delivered information to local user needs and contextual factors, ensuring comprehensive coverage of relevant topics while preventing overload in areas of lesser interest.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS9081853B2Information display system based on user profile data with assisted and explicit profile modification

Publication Date: 2015.07.14 GRAHAM HOLDINGS CO

AI summary

A data processing system for delivering an open profile personalization system based profile data structures that contain one or more interest nodes. The interest nodes include respective sets of targets and qualifiers, where the targets and qualifiers comprise typed-attributes to be used in the filtering of information files for delivery as a result set for the interest nodes. Targets and qualifiers are applied the typed-attributes of available information files to produce the filtered set. Web pages showing the personalized results include tools based on sophisticated content analysis to assist the user in creation and editing of the open profile. A method for presenting and updating the web pages is responsive to the use of these tools.