Personalization Data Storage Service for Business Information

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Solution Overview

Problem

Consumers face difficulties in efficiently searching for, managing, and sharing business information due to the vast amount of data and the time required to find trusted and recommended businesses, leading to inconvenient and disordered processes.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that facilitate user selection and retention of business information, processing user data to recommend businesses based on individual preferences and location, using a personalization system with data storage and user-generated content management to streamline business information discovery and sharing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If consumers manually search for and manage business information, then they can find businesses of interest, but the process becomes time-consuming and disordered

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebusiness information search efficiencyVSAvoidtime to find trusted businesses
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-organizing business information into collections based on themes and categories before users need to search. Users can browse pre-organized collections and receive recommendations without having to manually search through vast amounts of data, thus resolving the contradiction between search efficiency and time consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by analyzing user selections and behaviors to dynamically generate personalized recommendations. This feedback loop allows the system to learn from user interactions and improve recommendation accuracy over time, making the information discovery process more efficient and reducing the time users spend searching.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If the system stores detailed business information for multiple users, then personalization quality improves, but data management complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoiddata storage and management structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments business information into distinct collections organized by themes and categories. Each collection is independently structured with standardized schemas, allowing the system to manage complex data through modular organization. This segmentation enables personalized recommendations while keeping data management tractable through structured, reusable components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates universal collection templates that can serve multiple users and purposes. These standardized collection structures can be reused across different users and contexts, reducing the overall complexity of data management while still enabling highly personalized experiences. The same collection framework serves both storage and recommendation generation functions.

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

3Adaptability or versatility

If the system processes individual user selections and generates personalized recommendations, then service tailoring improves, but system processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetailored service offeringVSAvoidcomputational resources for recommendation generation
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSPower

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary processing by pre-organizing business information into themed collections and pre-computing relevant metadata before users need recommendations. This advance preparation reduces the computational burden during actual recommendation generation, allowing the system to provide personalized services without excessive processing requirements at query time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies local quality by tailoring recommendations to individual user contexts while using standardized collection structures. Each user receives personalized results based on their specific selections and profile, but the underlying collection frameworks remain consistent and efficiently manageable. This approach enables customization without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20160048698A1Data storage service for personalization system
Publication Date: 2016.02.18 THRYV INC
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AI summary

A data storage system or service is provided for the data that is generated by the personalization system. The data storage system can be configured to support storing, retrieving or querying, and updating of data such as user information, personalized content such as personalized business information and collection information, statistics information related to users, collections, businesses, and the like. The data model design of the data storage system may be configured to optimize performance associated with specific features of the personalized system such as following and/or sharing of collections. Additionally, the data storage system may be configured to detect and provide user notifications of trigger events.