Transform Manager Template Selection for Communication Effectiveness

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users often receive irrelevant or unwanted communications on their computing devices, leading to low engagement and missed important information due to challenges in grabbing attention and motivating users to consume entire communications.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that utilize a transform manager to determine the best communication template based on data type and channel, transforming source data using templates with high performance indicators to improve readability and effectiveness of communications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If multiple communication templates are used to transform source data, then the effectiveness of communication is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveeffectiveness of communicationVSAvoidtemplate archive management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-stores multiple communication templates in a template archive, each designed for specific data types and communication channels. This preliminary preparation allows the transform manager to quickly select an appropriate template without real-time complexity, resolving the contradiction between having multiple templates and managing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The transform manager monitors usage parameters and determines overall performance indicators for each template based on past effectiveness. This feedback mechanism allows the system to automatically select high-performing templates, improving communication effectiveness while maintaining manageable complexity through data-driven selection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If source data is transformed using effective communication templates, then user engagement is improved, but the processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser engagementVSAvoiddata transformation time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Communication templates are pre-designed and stored in the template archive with predefined transformation rules for different data types and channels. This preliminary structuring enables the transform manager to perform transformations efficiently by simply applying pre-established templates rather than creating transformations from scratch, thus improving user engagement without excessive processing time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes parameters by selecting templates based on data type and communication channel characteristics. By matching templates to specific parameters (data type, channel), the system achieves optimized transformation that balances engagement improvement with processing efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If communication templates are selected based on performance indicators, then the quality of communication is improved, but the measurement precision requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality of communicationVSAvoidperformance indicator accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The transform manager monitors usage parameters such as user engagement metrics, delivery success rates, and channel-specific performance data to determine overall performance indicators for each template. This feedback-based measurement approach provides sufficient precision for template selection without requiring excessively precise measurements, as the indicators are aggregated from multiple usage instances.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the measurement approach by using relative performance indicators rather than absolute precise measurements. By comparing templates based on their relative effectiveness in similar contexts, the system achieves quality improvement without demanding extreme measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11880649B1Selecting a template for transforming source data using a cognitive engine
Publication Date: 2024.01.23 BANK OF AMERICA CORP
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AI summary

A processor receives a request to communicate a source data using a preferred communication channel and obtains a first set of communication templates that correspond to a type of the source data and the preferred communication channel. The processor obtains a performance indicator associated with each communication template from the first set of communication template and selects from the first set of communication templates, a communication template associated with the highest value of the performance indicator. The processor transforms the source data using the selected communication template by formatting the source data based at least on one or more multimedia components associated with the selected communication template and transmits the transformed source data using the preferred communication channel.