Personal Information Space for Content Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face content overload due to the lack of personalized and organized content on the World Wide Web and other media platforms, where content providers often fail to cater to individual user needs, leading to inefficient information retrieval and maintenance of links across disparate sources.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize user profile vectors and content tagging vectors to match relevant content with user interests, allowing for automatic updating and filtering of information, ensuring that only pertinent content is presented to the user based on their profile, using a coordinated labeling and categorization technique.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content providers organize content in multiple independent sources to cater to different audiences, then content coverage and accessibility are improved, but user burden increases due to the need to learn and understand all sites/sources
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a personal information space as an intermediary layer between users and multiple content sources. This space acts as a mediator that automatically collects, organizes, and presents relevant content from various sources without requiring users to directly navigate through multiple sites. The personal information space serves as a unified interface that adapts to user needs while filtering out irrelevant content.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by automatically maintaining links and pointers to content sources without user intervention. The personal information space autonomously updates its content organization as sources change, eliminating the need for users to manually maintain links or relearn site structures. The system serves itself by continuously adapting to source changes while preserving user access.
2Ease of operation
If users maintain links and pointers to content collections, then access to information is improved, but the links become obsolete quickly as collections change
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamics by making the personal information space adaptable to changing content sources. Instead of static links that break when sources change, the system dynamically updates its internal structure to reflect current source locations. The personal information space automatically reconfigures its links and pointers as sources move or change, ensuring continuous accessibility without user intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs feedback mechanisms where changes in content sources are detected and automatically fed back into the personal information space. When sources change, the system receives feedback about these changes and automatically adjusts its link structure accordingly. This closed-loop feedback ensures that links remain valid and accessible even as underlying sources evolve.
3Adaptability or versatility
If users wade through vast collections of content to find interesting information, then content discovery is improved, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies extraction by pulling relevant content directly from vast collections and presenting it in the personal information space. Instead of requiring users to manually search through large content databases, the system extracts and pre-sorts relevant information based on user profiles and preferences. This extraction process filters out irrelevant content beforehand, leaving users with only what they need.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-organizing and pre-filtering content before users need it. The personal information space proactively collects and categorizes relevant information from multiple sources, so when users access it, the content is already sorted and ready for immediate consumption. This preliminary organization eliminates the need for users to perform time-consuming search and filtering operations.
4Adaptability or versatility
If content is rarely organized to provide uniform search and access, then content provider flexibility is improved, but user access to disparate information is inhibited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the personal information space into organized sections that mirror user interests and needs. Instead of presenting a monolithic collection of content, the system segments information into manageable categories and sections that are uniformly structured. This segmentation provides consistent search and access patterns while maintaining the flexibility to incorporate content from diverse sources.
Data Source
AI summary
A method and system is provided for classifying and labeling information content (e.g., websites, databases, or the like) and also for profiling a user (e.g., interests or responsibilities) for accessing the information content, both using a coordinated labeling technique so that the content from multiple sources may be searched, identified and/or presented to the user according to the user's profile. This technique provides an ongoing update of information content and sources while at the same time filtering out unnecessary information that is irrelevant to the user's profile, resulting in more focused availability of information to the user. The user profile is matched with content of interest (as tagged by content creators reflective of categories that is also employed by a user profile) and matching content information may automatically be updated and made available to a user, in conformity with the user's profile. Content providers may now jointly use a common labeling scheme to improve the experience of their users and to provide content providers a technique to associate users with common facets of classification.