Information Exchange Priority Grid for Dynamic Content Filtering

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current information exchange systems lack efficient mechanisms to determine which information items should be included in a consumer's information stream based on dynamic user profiles and selection criteria, leading to suboptimal content delivery.

Innovation Solution

A system that utilizes a priority grid and metrics processing to determine an 'include region' for information items, where producer and consumer priorities are calculated and compared against a threshold boundary to decide inclusion in the information stream, incorporating user profiles and selection criteria.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If a priority grid and metrics processing system is implemented to determine include regions for information items, then the relevance of delivered content to consumers is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent relevance accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the information delivery decision-making process into distinct components: a priority grid that separates producer priorities from consumer priorities, metrics processing that evaluates information items against selection criteria, and an include region determination that compares priorities against threshold boundaries. This segmentation allows each component to specialize in one aspect of the decision-making process, improving overall precision while making the complex system more manageable and maintainable

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The priority grid acts as an intermediary structure between producers and consumers, providing a standardized framework for comparing priorities. The metrics processing system serves as another intermediary layer that translates diverse information items and user profiles into comparable metrics. These intermediaries enable precise matching without requiring direct complex interactions between all system components

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If dynamic user profiles and selection criteria are processed for each information item, then the precision of information filtering is improved, but the processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation filtering precisionVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary processing by establishing the priority grid structure and metrics evaluation framework in advance. User profiles and selection criteria are pre-loaded and prepared for comparison. When information items arrive, the system can quickly evaluate them against the pre-established criteria rather than building the evaluation framework from scratch for each item, significantly reducing processing time while maintaining high filtering precision

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system transforms complex user profiles and selection criteria into simplified priority metrics that can be quickly compared. By changing the parameters from detailed profile data to condensed priority scores and threshold values, the system enables rapid evaluation of information items while preserving the essential filtering precision. The priority grid allows comparison of complex multidimensional data through simplified numerical representations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20180225719A1System and Methods for Operating an Information Exchange
Publication Date: 2018.08.09 MCFADDEN BRIAN DAVID
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AI summary

Methods and apparatuses useful for operating, regulating, and controlling an information exchange. For example, in a simplified description of one embodiment, mechanisms and methods are disclosed to dynamically determine from metrics for each information consumer an exchange value for each potential information item. Among other uses, the exchange value allows information items to be ranked and provides a component for dynamically determining, in conjunction with metrics, the bounds on a set of potential information items that may be included in the information stream of the information consumer. Further disclosed mechanisms and methods, for example, support broad dynamic control and automated operations of the information exchange.