Social Feed Filtering by Interest Categories
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Solution Overview
Problem
Social networking content feeds often include irrelevant information, reducing their utility as users are bombarded with uninteresting posts from friends with diverse interests, leading to a need for improved filtering techniques.
Innovation Solution
A method that filters posts in social network feeds based on interest categories associated with the posts, allowing users to subscribe to specific categories and order posts by authority ratings of the users who made them, thereby enhancing content relevance and user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If content feeds deliver all posts from subscribed users, then the completeness of information is improved, but the relevance of content deteriorates due to inclusion of uninteresting posts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the content feed by dividing it into multiple category-specific feeds (e.g., sports, politics, entertainment) based on user interests. Each feed contains only posts relevant to that specific category, allowing users to subscribe to selective categories rather than receiving all posts from a user. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining completeness within each category while improving overall relevance through selective filtering.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by making different parts of the feed system have different properties. Each category feed has its own relevance criteria and filtering rules tailored to that specific topic area. The system dynamically adjusts the composition of each feed based on the user's expressed interests in that local category, rather than applying a uniform filtering approach across all content.
2Quantity of substance
If feeds include all content from co-workers, then the coverage of information is improved, but the spam level increases due to work-unrelated content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments co-worker content into professional categories (work-related) and personal categories (extracurricular activities, hobbies). Users can selectively subscribe to receive only work-related content from co-workers by choosing appropriate interest categories, thereby maintaining information coverage for professional updates while eliminating spam from personal content.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts and separates work-related content from personal content in co-worker posts. By using category-based filtering, the system extracts only the relevant professional content and delivers it to users, while leaving the personal content in a separate feed that users can choose not to subscribe to, thus removing the harmful spam effect.
3Loss of information
If feeds are organized by interest categories, then the relevance of content is improved, but the complexity of feed management increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service by automatically categorizing posts into interest categories based on keywords, content analysis, or user preferences. The system autonomously manages the categorization and feed organization without requiring manual user intervention. Users simply declare their interests, and the system automatically populates and updates the category feeds, reducing management complexity while maintaining high relevance.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary action by pre-establishing interest categories and pre-tagging content with relevant categories before users need to access feeds. The system proactively organizes content into categories based on analysis of user profiles, posting history, and content characteristics, so that when users subscribe to categories, the relevant feeds are already prepared and optimized for their interests.
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AI summary
A method for filtering social media content based on interest categories. Users of a social network can be associated with one or more interest categories. Posts or updates made in the social network by friends of a first user are associated with one or more interest categories. A social feed can be filtered based on the interested categories or the first user of the social feed and/or the interests associated with the posts or updates made by the first user's friends. In some cases, the filtered social media content is ordered based on expertise of the first user's friends in the particular interest categories of those users' posts.