Rule-Based Content Collection Management System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems lack efficient methods for automatically managing and updating user-generated content collections, such as adding, editing, or deleting content items based on predefined rules, and do not effectively facilitate access rights and notifications for users.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for generating customized content collections that allow users to define rules for automatic updating, access rights, and notifications, enabling automatic addition, editing, or deletion of content items based on user activities, time lapses, or other events, and providing access to collections according to these rules.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If manual management of content collections is used, then users have full control over content items, but the system complexity and time required for managing collections increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of collection managementVSAvoidtime for managing collections

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Users pre-define rules for automatic collection management before content items are added. The system stores these rules and automatically executes them when triggering events occur, eliminating the need for manual intervention during content management operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The collection management system performs self-service by automatically adding, removing, or editing content items based on predefined rules and triggering events. The system monitors events, evaluates rules, and executes management actions without requiring user involvement.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Productivity

If automatic rule-based updates are implemented, then collection maintenance efficiency improves, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecollection update efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The rule-based management system is segmented into distinct functional modules: rule definition module, event monitoring module, rule evaluation module, and action execution module. Each module handles a specific aspect of the automatic management process, making the overall system more manageable and maintainable.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The rule engine is designed as a universal component that can handle multiple types of content management actions (add, remove, edit) based on different triggering events. The same rule evaluation mechanism serves multiple purposes, reducing the need for separate specialized systems.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Reliability

If comprehensive access rights and notifications are configured, then user control and awareness improve, but the ease of operation decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess control reliabilityVSAvoidease of collection access

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system allows dynamic configuration of access rights parameters (read, write, delete permissions) and notification parameters (enabled/disabled, recipient lists). These parameters can be adjusted to balance security requirements with ease of operation, allowing the same collection to have different access configurations for different user groups.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11995045B1Customized rule-based collections

Publication Date: 2024.05.28 GOOGLE LLC

AI summary

A method is provided including presenting a user interface to allow a user of a social networking service to create a new collection for collecting a set of content items for the user, and upon a user request to create the new collection, adding the new collection to a list of collections associated with a user profile of the user, and presenting, in the user interface, the new collection as part of the list of collections associated with the user profile at the social networking service. The further includes in response to receiving, via the user interface, a user selection of an edit collection button with respect to the new collection, allowing the user to add an additional content item to the new collection from the list of collections associated with the user profile, and in response to receiving, via the user interface, a user selection of a share collection button with respect to the new collection, allowing the user to share the new collection with one or more other users of the social networking service, wherein sharing the new collection with the one or more other users causes a notification to be provided to the one or more other users according to one or more rules.