Personalized Print-Ready News Digest System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current electronic content delivery systems fail to combine the customization power of the Internet with the reading convenience of print media, resulting in inefficient content distribution and advertising, as users receive unoptimized and non-targeted content.

Innovation Solution

A system that includes a profile module, content management module, and document creation module to create personalized, print-ready digest documents based on user preferences, optimizing content selection and delivery format for individual users, and integrating targeted advertising.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If electronic content delivery systems use standardized content formats for all users, then content distribution efficiency is improved, but user customization and relevance deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent distribution efficiencyVSAvoiduser customization
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments content into modular units that can be independently selected and assembled based on user profiles, allowing efficient distribution of only relevant content segments to each user rather than distributing complete standardized editions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-segmenting content and pre-configuring user profiles with preferences before content delivery, enabling rapid assembly of customized content without real-time processing delays

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Speed

If print content is converted to electronic formats for online delivery, then accessibility and distribution speed are improved, but reading convenience and optimization for print reading deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedistribution speedVSAvoidreading convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the parameter of content formatting by maintaining print-optimized layouts and typography in electronically delivered content, allowing fast electronic distribution while preserving reading convenience characteristics of print media

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If advertisers target specific user groups with customized content, then advertising effectiveness is improved, but content delivery complexity and processing requirements worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertising effectivenessVSAvoidcontent delivery system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-configuring user profiles with detailed preferences and pre-segmenting content by topic and relevance, enabling effective advertising targeting without complex real-time processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses copying by creating simplified profile templates and content templates that can be replicated and matched efficiently, reducing the complexity of comparing individual user preferences against all content items

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS7814116B2Method and system for creating customized news digests
Publication Date: 2010.10.12 DAILYME INC
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  • US7814116B2 patent drawing
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AI summary

A system is provided for delivering personalized digest documents to multiple users. The system includes a profile module, a content management module, a document creation module, and an interface. The profile module receives a delivery preference of one of the users, and receives at least one of a user attribute and a content preference of the one user. The content management module searches at least one location for content items that match at least one of the user attribute and the content preference. The document creation module receives at least one of the content items that match, and compiles a personalized digest document for the one user that includes the at least one content item that matches. The personalized digest document is in a print-ready format, and the interface delivers the personalized digest document to the one user in accordance with the delivery preference of the one user. Also provided is a method for delivering personalized digest documents to multiple users.