Subscription Board System for IM Content Curation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content subscription platforms lack the ability to efficiently facilitate content creation, publishing, and subscription management, particularly in adapting to user interests and preferences, leading to suboptimal content consumption experiences.
Innovation Solution
A subscription service system that allows creators to curate and publish boards composed of curated content, enabling users to subscribe to channels and interact with content through an interface screen, with features like board creation, publication, and management, as well as interworking with creator and application servers for content distribution and user engagement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a conventional content recommendation system is used where providers recommend customized contents to users, then the system can provide personalized content delivery, but it lacks efficient subscription management and content curation capabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The system is segmented into distinct functional modules: a board creation module for curating content collections, a channel subscription module for user engagement, and an editor module for content management. This segmentation allows each module to handle specific tasks efficiently, improving adaptability while managing complexity through modular design.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary board structure that sits between content providers and users. Boards act as curated collections that organize multiple contents, serving as an intermediate layer that simplifies subscription management and enhances content discoverability without requiring direct complex interactions between providers and users.
2Productivity
If users manually browse and select contents from multiple providers, then users can find diverse content, but the process is time-consuming and lacks efficient discovery mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
Content providers pre-curate collections of contents into boards before publication. This preliminary organization of content into thematic collections eliminates the need for users to manually browse and select individual contents, significantly improving discovery efficiency while reducing time loss through advance content arrangement.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates copied board structures that can be replicated and distributed across multiple channels. Once a board is created and curated, it can be copied to multiple subscription channels, allowing efficient content distribution and discovery without requiring repeated manual selection processes.
3Adaptability or versatility
If creators want to publish and manage multiple contents across different channels, then content distribution capability is enhanced, but the management complexity increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The board structure is designed as a universal container that can hold multiple types of contents from different providers and be published to multiple channels simultaneously. This multi-functional board design enables creators to manage diverse content collections through a single interface, enhancing distribution capability while reducing management complexity through standardized operations.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for providing a subscription service in a terminal installed with an instant messaging application by interworking with an application server is provided. The method comprises displaying recommendation boards recommended by the application server or boards published in a subscription channel on an interface screen, receiving a request for subscribing to a specific channel that has published the recommendation board, from a user, and transmitting information on a channel for which a subscription is requested to the application server and requesting registering as a subscription channel. Each board displayed on the interface screen is a content distribution unit that is composed of a board title and a plurality of contents, and is exposed along with a name of a channel having published a corresponding board. The channel publishing each board is an account that has subscribed to a service providing the instant messaging application.