Profile Discrepancy Detection and Prompting System

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Solution Overview

Problem

End users of hosted services often experience frustration due to a lack of suitable matches or responses, often resulting from inadequate profile updates, inconsistent messaging, and discrepancies between profile information and behavior, which can be addressed by identifying and correcting these issues.

Innovation Solution

A processor-based system that reviews user profiles against defined evaluation criteria, detects discrepancies, and provides prompts to users to improve their profile completeness, consistency, and engagement strategies, such as updating images, messaging frequency, and response rates, based on successful user behaviors.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the system provides automated discrepancy identification and prompting, then user profile quality and match success rate improve, but system complexity and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser profile qualityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the profile evaluation into multiple independent criteria (completeness, consistency, recency, quality metrics) that can be processed separately. Each criterion is evaluated independently against defined standards, allowing the complex evaluation task to be divided into manageable components that reduce overall system complexity while maintaining high reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary evaluation of user profiles against established criteria before matching occurs. By pre-identifying discrepancies and providing prompts for correction, the system ensures high-quality profiles are ready in advance, improving match reliability without requiring complex real-time analysis during the matching process itself.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If the system continuously monitors and evaluates user profiles, then profile accuracy and user experience improve, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprofile accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements periodic evaluation of user profiles at key moments (profile creation, updates, before matching) rather than continuous monitoring. This periodic approach maintains high profile accuracy by evaluating at critical points while minimizing unnecessary processing time and computational resource consumption during idle periods.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

3Productivity

If the system provides detailed prompts and coaching to users, then user success rate and engagement improve, but information processing and communication overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser success rateVSAvoidcommunication overhead
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides targeted feedback prompts to users based on specific discrepancies identified in their profiles. Rather than overwhelming users with all possible information, the system delivers concise, actionable feedback that directly addresses identified issues, improving user success rates while minimizing communication overhead by only transmitting necessary corrective information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20230289391A1Apparatus, method and article to identify discrepancies between clients and in response prompt clients in a networked environment
Publication Date: 2023.09.14 PLENTYOFFISH MEDIA ULC
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AI summary

Information related to apparently successful end users is collected, stored, and used to generate at least one evaluation criteria to compare to at least one component of a respective end user desiring to become a successful end user. The information may be generated based on comparative information with other entities who appear to share some components with the respective end user. The components may be based on actual actions, preferences, constraints, attributes, etc. A number of components of the respective end user are compared relative to a set of defined evaluation criteria that specifies defined evaluation criteria for at least some of those components. In response to detecting at least one discrepancy, a prompt is provided to the respective end user indicative of the discrepancy.