Personalized Webpage Gifting System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional gift cards lack personalization, failing to reflect the recipient's interests and preferences, and do not facilitate collaborative gifting experiences.

Innovation Solution

A personalized webpage gifting system that allows multiple participants to contribute to a gift by generating a graphical user interface to receive recipient information, combining user-supplied content, and transmitting a personalized gift experience to the recipient, including options for gratitude responses and celebration videos.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If traditional gift cards are used, then the gifting process is simple and straightforward, but the gift lacks personalization and fails to reflect the recipient's interests and preferences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesimplicity of gifting processVSAvoidpersonalization capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the gifting process into multiple components: content contribution from multiple participants, monetary contribution collection, gift selection, and personalized webpage generation. This allows the system to maintain simplicity in each individual step while achieving comprehensive personalization through the integration of all segments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The gifting system serves multiple functions: it collects user-supplied content from multiple participants, aggregates monetary contributions, selects appropriate gifts based on recipient preferences, and generates personalized webpages. This multi-functionality enables the system to provide both simplicity and personalization simultaneously.

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

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple participants contribute content and funds to a gift, then the gifting experience becomes more collaborative and personalized, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecollaborative gifting capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system acts as an intermediary that manages multiple participants' contributions by providing standardized interfaces for content submission, monetary contribution, and gift selection. This intermediary role simplifies the complexity by centralizing the coordination of multiple participants through a unified platform.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a virtual copy of the gift experience through a personalized webpage that consolidates all participant contributions. This digital representation allows multiple participants to collaborate without requiring complex physical coordination, as their contributions are aggregated and presented in a unified virtual format.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Adaptability or versatility

If a personalized webpage is generated with user-supplied content from multiple participants, then the gift becomes more meaningful and engaging, but the time and effort required to create it increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization levelVSAvoidtime to create gift
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system allows participants to contribute their content and monetary amounts in advance through a structured interface. This preliminary action enables the system to aggregate all contributions before the gift creation deadline, reducing the time pressure during the final gift assembly phase.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides self-service interfaces that guide participants through content submission and contribution processes automatically. This reduces the time investment required from participants, as the system handles the coordination and aggregation of contributions without requiring manual intervention for each individual input.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10430866B2Personalized webpage gifting system and method
Publication Date: 2019.10.01 E2INTERACTIVE INC
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AI summary

A personalized webpage gifting system includes a server in communication with a computing device having a processor to execute an application. Upon execution, the application generates generate a graphical user interface (GUI) to receive recipient information from each of a plurality of participants in which the recipient information user-supplied content associated with a recipient from each of a plurality of participants, and a monetary amount to be contributed towards purchase of a gift for the recipient. The application then combines the user-supplied content of each participant to form a personalized content structure, wherein the application is further executable to facilitate transmission of the gift and the personalized content structure to the recipient.