Social Filter Locality Viewport for Relevance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing locality services overwhelm users with irrelevant and unorganized content information, failing to effectively filter and present the most relevant information based on user interests and social connections.
Innovation Solution
A social filter system that identifies users' socially connected accounts and filters content based on social associations, providing a personalized and relevant viewport of locality information, including visualization and media objects, to enhance user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If locality services present comprehensive content information to users, then information completeness is improved, but information relevance deteriorates due to overwhelming irrelevant content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces socially connected accounts as intermediaries between users and locality content. These intermediaries filter and recommend content based on their social associations, allowing users to access comprehensive information while maintaining relevance through social trust relationships. The system presents content that has been vetted by socially connected users rather than presenting all available content directly.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by customizing the information presentation based on each user's specific social connections and preferences. Instead of a uniform information delivery system, the content filtering and ranking is tailored to each user's social context, showing different relevant content to different users based on their unique social networks and associations with locality items.
2Ease of operation
If locality services organize content based on user reviews and rankings, then information organization is improved, but information relevance deteriorates due to flood of reviews exposing irrelevant content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the traditional review-based intermediary system with a social connection-based intermediary system. Instead of relying on aggregate user reviews and rankings that can be overwhelmed by volume, the system uses socially connected accounts as trusted intermediaries who curate and recommend content, maintaining organization while improving relevance through social trust.
3Object-generated harmful factors
If users are provided with tools to filter locality information, then information relevance is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service by automatically leveraging users' existing social connections and associations to perform filtering. Rather than requiring users to manually configure complex filter settings or criteria, the system automatically uses the user's social network data to curate relevant content, making the filtering process transparent and requiring minimal user intervention.
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AI summary
A method of operation of a social filter system includes: identifying a user with a user account; identifying a socially connected account from the user account, the socially connected account having a social association; selecting a content of interest from a content store of contents of interest based on the social association; and sending the content of interest for displaying on a user device.