Tone Optimization Module for Digital Content

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current information handling systems lack the ability to optimize the tone of digital content to effectively match the desired tone for a target audience, leading to potential miscommunication or mismatched emotional and social cues.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising a tone analysis module and a tone optimization module that analyzes digital content to determine a current tone and provides recommendations to optimize it to achieve a desired tone, using a processor and memory to save and implement these recommendations, which can include social and emotional tone adjustments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If digital content is shared without tone optimization, then communication speed and simplicity are maintained, but the effectiveness and resonance with target audience deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication effectivenessVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically analyzes digital content tone and generates optimization recommendations without requiring manual user intervention. The tone analysis module processes the content independently, identifying current tone characteristics and comparing them against desired tones for the target audience, thereby enabling self-service tone optimization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces manual tone adjustment processes with automated computational analysis. Instead of relying on human judgment and manual editing, the system uses processor-based tone analysis modules to objectively assess digital content and generate optimization recommendations, substituting mechanical human effort with automated electronic processing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Reliability

If tone optimization analysis is performed on digital content, then communication effectiveness and audience resonance are improved, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system focuses tone optimization analysis on specific critical elements of digital content rather than analyzing every aspect equally. By identifying and prioritizing key tone-affecting components, the system achieves effective tone optimization with reduced processing requirements compared to comprehensive full-content analysis.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS10831796B2Tone optimization for digital content

Publication Date: 2020.11.10 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION

AI summary

An approach is provided that provides a tone optimization recommendation. The approach obtains a current tone inferred from digital content and a desired tone inference for a target audience. A tone optimization recommendation to reduce a difference between the current tone and the desired tone is determined using a processor. A memory is modified to save the tone optimization recommendation. The tone optimization recommendation is provided.