Transmission Resource Allocation Using Correlated User Groups

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Solution Overview

Problem

Content providers face challenges in efficiently targeting and transmitting content to a sufficient audience without causing network congestion and resource wastage due to repeated requests for broader audience reach.

Innovation Solution

A network provider manages data transmission resources by identifying user groups with similar interests using historical transmission information, allowing targeted content delivery to both an initial user group and additional groups that match a similarity threshold, thereby optimizing transmission efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If content providers transmit content to a broader audience to reach more users, then the audience coverage is improved, but network congestion and resource wastage increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaudience coverageVSAvoidnetwork resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of historical transmission information and user characteristics before actual content transmission. By pre-identifying user groups with similar interests and predicting their content preferences, the system prepares transmission plans in advance that optimize audience coverage while minimizing redundant transmissions and network resource consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Quantity of substance

If content providers make repeated requests for broader audience reach, then the audience coverage is improved, but the frequency of requests and network congestion increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaudience coverageVSAvoidtransmission efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a feedback mechanism where historical transmission results and user response data are continuously analyzed. This feedback loop enables the system to learn from past transmissions, refine user group profiles, and optimize future content distribution strategies, reducing the need for repeated broad-casting requests and improving overall transmission efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system autonomously manages content distribution by automatically analyzing user data, identifying target groups, and executing transmissions without requiring repeated manual intervention from content providers. This self-service capability reduces request frequency and optimizes resource utilization through automated decision-making.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Quantity of substance

If the network provider transmits content to additional user groups beyond the initial target, then the audience coverage is improved, but the complexity of managing transmissions increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaudience coverageVSAvoidtransmission management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the user base into distinct groups based on shared characteristics and interests identified from historical data. By dividing the broader audience into manageable segments with similar preferences, the system can efficiently manage transmissions to multiple groups simultaneously while reducing the overall complexity through structured organization and standardized processing of each segment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20250350784A1Managing Transmission Resources
Publication Date: 2025.11.13 COMCAST CABLE COMM LLC
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AI summary

Methods are described for managing transmission resources using user group correlation. A content provider or an advertiser may send, to a network provider, a content item that is to be transmitted to a target audience. The content provider or the advertiser may indicate the target audience by providing data identifying one or more criteria for the target audience. The network provider may use the data from the content provider to determine an initial user group that matches the criteria, and one or more additional user groups that are similar to the initial user group within a threshold. The network provider may transmit the content item to the initial user group and to the additional user groups.