Ranking System Voting Link Third-Party Embedding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing online ranking platforms require voters to visit the platform to cast votes, which is inconvenient and limits credibility, especially for lesser-known platforms with limited traffic, resulting in unrepresentative popularity rankings and poor brand awareness.
Innovation Solution
A ranking system that allows voting via a voting link embedded on third-party platforms such as emails, social networks, and blogs, using a flexible, convenient, and accountable mechanism that assigns value-based voting, with user authentication and points systems to deter fraud, and updates rankings in real-time based on user interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If voters are required to visit the platform interface to cast votes, then the platform can implement authentication and control voting processes, but the convenience of voting is reduced and traffic to the platform decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a voting link as an intermediary element that bridges the gap between the platform's authentication requirements and the voter's convenience. The voting link embeds the platform's voting functionality within third-party platforms, allowing users to vote without directly visiting the platform while still maintaining the platform's authentication and control mechanisms through the embedded link.
2Reliability
If the platform is a lesser-known platform with limited traffic, then authentication and control can be maintained, but the representativeness of voting results deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent expands the voting system from a single-platform dimension to a multi-platform dimension by embedding voting links across third-party platforms. This dimensional expansion allows the platform to maintain authentication and control while accessing a broader, more diverse voter base across multiple platforms, thereby improving the representativeness of voting results without sacrificing voting control.
3Device complexity
If voting is enabled only on the platform website, then the platform can manage the voting process centrally, but brand awareness and global presence are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the voting system universal by enabling it to function across multiple platforms through embedded voting links. The same voting mechanism and authentication system work consistently whether accessed through the platform's own website or through third-party platforms, thereby increasing accessibility and brand presence without significantly complicating system management.
4Quantity of substance
If the platform invests in creating awareness to direct traffic, then more voters can be reached, but the cost and effort increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary action by pre-establishing voting links that can be embedded on third-party platforms. This advance preparation allows the voting system to leverage the existing traffic and audience of third-party platforms without requiring the platform to invest significant marketing effort in attracting voters, thereby increasing the number of voters while minimizing marketing costs.
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AI summary
A system for ranking a plurality of items comprising an online platform capable of displaying a list showing ranking of the items, a voting link generating module for generating a voting link that is assigned to a specific item to allow a vote to be cast thereon following a specific action performed on the voting link, a ranking engine for determining ranking of the items through updating and/or repositioning the items on the list upon receiving the vote, and one or more servers having a processor for managing processes executed by the system, wherein the voting link is configured to be inserted and displayed on a third-party platform managed by a third-party server to readily interact and receive the specific action for the vote to be cast on the item from users browsing the third-party platform without having the user to visit the online platform of the system.