Social Activity Post Prioritization via Multi-Factor Scoring

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Solution Overview

Problem

Companies face challenges in efficiently prioritizing and responding to social activity postings on social media platforms, as existing methods lack a systematic approach to rank posts based on importance and urgency, leading to delayed or inappropriate responses.

Innovation Solution

A system that prioritizes social activity postings by assigning a priority rating using customer importance scores, message sentiment analysis, problem severity scoring, and child posting evaluations, allowing companies to respond to urgent or critical posts in a timely manner.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If companies manually review all social media postings, then they can respond to each post, but the time and resources required increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse qualityVSAvoidresponse time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automated self-service prioritization of social media postings through algorithmic analysis of multiple factors including customer value, sentiment, and issue severity. The automated system independently ranks postings without requiring manual review of each post, yet maintains high response quality through sophisticated scoring mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system transforms the prioritization process by changing parameters from simple chronological ordering to a multi-dimensional scoring system that evaluates customer value, sentiment analysis, issue severity, and engagement metrics. This parameter transformation enables efficient automated prioritization while maintaining high response quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Productivity

If companies respond to all social media postings equally, then no priority is given to critical issues, but critical issues may be delayed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse efficiencyVSAvoidissue prioritization accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different quality levels of response priority to different postings based on their specific characteristics. Each posting receives a customized priority score based on its unique combination of customer value, sentiment, issue type, and severity, enabling differentiated handling where critical issues receive immediate attention while less urgent matters are addressed subsequently.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary prioritization analysis before companies respond to postings. By pre-calculating priority scores based on multiple factors including customer importance and issue severity, the system prepares an optimized response queue in advance, ensuring critical issues are positioned at the front of the response sequence.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Device complexity

If a simple prioritization method is used, then the system is easy to implement, but it cannot accurately distinguish between different levels of urgency and importance

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem complexityVSAvoidpriority rating accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The prioritization system is segmented into distinct analytical components: customer value assessment, sentiment analysis, issue severity evaluation, and engagement metric analysis. Each component independently evaluates specific aspects of the posting and contributes to the overall priority score, enabling high precision through modular analysis while maintaining manageable system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs a universal multi-functional prioritization framework that handles diverse posting types (complaints, inquiries, feedback) through a single integrated scoring mechanism. This universal approach accurately distinguishes between different levels of urgency and importance across various posting categories without requiring separate specialized systems.

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

Data Source

PatentUS8719178B2Prioritizing social activity postings
Publication Date: 2014.05.06 SAP SE
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AI summary

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for prioritizing social activity postings. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request for prioritized social activity postings, the request being associated with a company identifier. Social activity postings are identified. The social activity postings are available to users on a social activity system of one or more computers, and each social activity posting is associated with a user identifier. For each social activity posting, the user identifier associated with the social activity posting is matched with a customer identifier associated with the company identifier. A respective priority rating is determined for the social activity posting using configuration information associated with the customer identifier.