Presentation Analysis Service for Content Consumption Tracking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current approaches to determining users' preferences for consuming digital content are limited by reliance on subjective and costly user reviews, which can be biased or inaccurate, providing content providers with incomplete information on how users actually consume content.

Innovation Solution

A presentation analysis service that acquires and aggregates presentation information from computing devices to analyze how users consume content, providing recommendations and adapting content presentation based on user behavior, such as skipping certain parts or spending more time on others, to tailor offerings and improve user engagement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If user reviews are used to determine content preferences, then user feedback is obtained, but the feedback is subjective, biased, inaccurate, and costly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of user preference dataVSAvoidreliance on subjective reviews
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical system of manual user reviews with an automated presentation analysis system that objectively measures actual content consumption behavior through computing devices, eliminating subjectivity and bias while providing precise data on user preferences

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates objective copies of user behavior through automated tracking of presentation positions and consumption patterns, replacing subjective user self-reporting with factual recorded data that accurately reflects actual content engagement

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Measurement precision

If presentation analysis is implemented to track user consumption behavior, then accurate user preference data is obtained, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of consumption behavior dataVSAvoidcomplexity of analysis system
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The computing device automatically performs presentation analysis and tracks consumption behavior without requiring external analytical tools, making the system self-sufficient and reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high measurement precision

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The presentation analysis service is designed to work across multiple computing devices and content types universally, providing a standardized solution that reduces complexity by avoiding device-specific or content-specific customizations

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

Data Source

PatentUS9223830B1Content presentation analysis
Publication Date: 2015.12.29 AUDIBLE INC
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AI summary

A presentation analysis service may obtain presentation information from one or more computing devices that are presenting the item of content. The presentation information may be used to generate recommendations to be provided to a user that is consuming the item of content and/or to a provider of items of content. Further, the presentation information may be used to adapt a presentation of the item of content.