Profile Image Card Ranking System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulties in efficiently sharing and evaluating information about specialists in specific fields through network services, leading to a need for effective data sharing techniques.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for sharing and evaluating profile image cards, where a server obtains, categorizes, and ranks user profiles based on evaluation information, recommending them to other devices, with features like stamp images indicating expertise and integration with applications and phonebook services.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If users share excessive amounts of information via network services, then information availability increases, but information sharing efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation availabilityVSAvoidinformation sharing efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments user profile information into structured cards with specific fields (name, occupation, expertise, contact information). This organization transforms unstructured excessive information into manageable, searchable units, improving sharing efficiency while maintaining comprehensive information availability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary evaluation mechanism where third-party users can assess and verify profile information. This mediator system filters and validates shared information, enabling efficient retrieval of reliable specialist information without being overwhelmed by unverified data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If profile image cards are categorized and ranked based on evaluation information, then information retrieval efficiency improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation retrieval efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary categorization and ranking of profile cards based on evaluation information before users need to search. Profiles are pre-organized by category (medical, legal, educational fields) and pre-ranked within categories, so users can directly access sorted results without performing complex filtering operations themselves.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent establishes a feedback loop where user evaluations of profile cards continuously update the ranking system. This automated feedback mechanism dynamically adjusts profile rankings based on community assessment, reducing the need for manual system configuration and simplifying the user interface while maintaining high retrieval efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10191937B2System and method for sharing profile image card
Publication Date: 2019.01.29 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A method of sharing profile image cards of a user of a device is provided. The method may be performed by a server and includes obtaining profile image cards indicating profiles of a first user of a first device related to a field of interest of the first user, categorizing the profile image cards based on pre-set categories, obtaining evaluation information of a second user of a second device regarding the profile image cards, determining rankings of the profile image cards for each of the categories based on the evaluation information, and recommending the profile image cards to at least one other device based on the rankings of the profile image cards.