Personalized User Interface Selection System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing interface systems fail to personalize user experiences effectively by not considering user-specific characteristics, leading to suboptimal content and application presentations.

Innovation Solution

A system that accesses personal characteristic information to select and present tailored user interfaces and application interfaces based on user access profile levels, utilizing a network of processing components to provide personalized product information and functionality.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a single standardized user interface is provided to all users, then device complexity is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but user experience personalization and interaction relevance deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinterface personalizationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by accessing and analyzing user characteristic information before interface presentation, determining user access profile levels and selecting appropriate interfaces in advance. This allows personalized interfaces to be delivered without real-time complexity, as the selection logic is pre-established based on user characteristics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary processing layer that receives user characteristic information, determines access profile levels, and selects appropriate interfaces. This intermediary component decouples the complexity of personalization logic from the interface presentation itself, managing system complexity while enabling adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If personalized user interfaces are selected based on user characteristics, then user experience and interaction relevance are improved, but processing time and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser experienceVSAvoidinterface selection time
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

User characteristic information is accessed and analyzed in advance to determine access profile levels before the actual interface interaction begins. This preliminary personalization reduces real-time processing requirements and minimizes the time loss during actual use.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs self-service by automatically accessing user characteristic information and selecting appropriate interfaces without requiring manual user input or configuration. This automation reduces the time burden on users while maintaining personalized experience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Manufacturing precision

If multiple user access profile levels are implemented, then content presentation relevance is improved, but device complexity and difficulty of manufacture increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent matching precisionVSAvoidsystem implementation ease
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments users into distinct access profile levels based on their characteristic information, creating manageable categories for content presentation. This segmentation approach allows precise content matching while simplifying implementation by grouping users into discrete levels rather than handling continuous customization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes parameters by determining user access profile levels as an intermediate parameter that maps user characteristics to appropriate interfaces and content. This parameter transformation simplifies the manufacturing and implementation process by using level-based classification rather than direct one-to-one customization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS7827072B1Method and system for interface presentation
Publication Date: 2010.11.02 UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)
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AI summary

Methods and systems for interface presentation are described. A user interface for the user may be selected among a plurality of available user interfaces in accordance with the personal characteristic information. A user access profile level for the user may be selected among a plurality of available user access profile levels in accordance with the personal characteristic information. Product information may be selected in accordance with the age data.