Social Object Integration for Targeted Content Delivery

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Solution Overview

Problem

Social networking engines face challenges in maintaining user interest and generating revenue, as they are confined to a digital world and lack interaction with physical objects, and struggle to provide targeted advertisements to specific demographics.

Innovation Solution

A system that integrates social objects into social networking engines, allowing users to interact with physical objects and services, and uses data analysis to provide personalized content and advertisements based on user interactions with these objects.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If social networking engines constantly add new games and features to maintain user interest, then user engagement is improved, but device complexity and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser engagementVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adapts content delivery based on user interactions with social objects. The engine evolves from static content posting to dynamic content recommendation by analyzing user actions, associations, and preferences, allowing the system to become more intelligent without requiring constant manual addition of new games and features

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The social networking engine automatically generates personalized content recommendations by analyzing user interactions with social objects. The system serves itself by using its own data infrastructure to drive content delivery, eliminating the need for manual content creation and reducing operational complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If social networks expand to include interaction with physical objects, then content variety and user interest are improved, but device complexity and infrastructure requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent varietyVSAvoidinfrastructure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses a universal data infrastructure that handles both digital user interactions and physical object associations through a common framework. Social objects serve as a universal interface that can represent both digital content and physical entities, allowing the same system architecture to support diverse interaction types without requiring separate infrastructure for each

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

Social objects act as intermediaries between users and physical objects in the real world. Rather than directly integrating with physical objects, the system uses social objects as a conceptual layer that mediates interactions, allowing users to associate and interact with physical entities through the social networking interface without complex direct integration

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If advertisers want to target specific demographics, then advertising effectiveness is improved, but data collection and analysis requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetargeting precisionVSAvoiddata analysis complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously analyzes user interactions with social objects and uses this feedback to refine demographic targeting. By monitoring associations, preferences, and interaction patterns, the system automatically updates user profiles and improves targeting precision over time, reducing the manual effort required for demographic analysis

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-processes and structures user interaction data as users engage with social objects, organizing information into actionable demographic segments before advertising campaigns are launched. This preliminary data organization reduces the complexity of real-time analysis and enables faster, more precise targeting

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12124504B2System and method for directing content to users of a social networking engine
Publication Date: 2024.10.22 LIAU SOON TECK FREDERICK NOEL
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AI summary

A system and method for providing a third generation social network. The system provides processes that allow physical objects to be represented as social objects in the social network. A user may then interact with the social objects. These interactions allow the system to collect the content of the interactions of a particular user. The content of the interactions may then be analyzed and used to direct specific content to specific users that may have an interest in the specific content as indicated by the content of the interactions of those users. Furthermore, the system provides a method for associating data with a shape in an image to allow a user and/or groups of users to interact with the image.