User Behavior Based Multimedia Content Recommendation System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulties in finding meaningful multimedia content within vast collections stored on their devices, as traditional methods require significant processing and storage capacity and often result in loose organization, making it hard to locate specific files.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that captures and analyzes user behavioral and interactive cues, such as facial expressions and gaze, to rank and recommend multimedia content, allowing devices to learn and personalize content suggestions based on user preferences, reducing the need for extensive processing and storage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If traditional image searching and understanding approaches are used to locate objects in multimedia content, then multimedia content can be grouped according to recognized objects, but vast amounts of processing and storage capacity are required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of locating multimedia contentVSAvoidprocessing and storage capacity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential behavioral cues (facial expressions, gaze direction, interaction patterns) needed for content recommendation, rather than performing comprehensive multimedia analysis. This selective extraction of relevant information reduces processing requirements while maintaining recommendation effectiveness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses lightweight, temporary behavioral data collection during user interactions rather than permanent, resource-intensive multimedia analysis. The behavioral cues are processed in real-time and discarded after use, avoiding the need for vast storage capacity required by traditional approaches.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

2Productivity

If traditional approaches group and organize multimedia content loosely, then organization is simplified, but users still need to search for content they wish to consume

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent location efficiencyVSAvoidtime to locate meaningful content
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors user behavioral cues (facial expressions, gaze, interaction patterns) and uses this feedback to dynamically update content recommendations. This real-time feedback loop allows the system to learn user preferences and automatically refine content organization, eliminating the need for manual user searching.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of user behavioral patterns during normal interactions with the device, building a profile of user preferences before content selection is needed. This preliminary action enables the system to pre-organize and recommend meaningful content proactively, rather than waiting for users to search for it.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If behavioral and interaction cues are recorded and analyzed to produce personalized recommendations, then content relevance to user is improved, but processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of content recommendationVSAvoidprocessing and analysis capacity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different levels of analysis to different aspects of user behavior, focusing computational resources on the most informative cues (such as facial expressions and gaze direction) while using simpler metrics for other interactions. This localized quality approach maintains recommendation accuracy while reducing overall processing requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS11500907B2System and method for user-behavior based content recommendations
Publication Date: 2022.11.15 FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES INC
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AI summary

A system and method of predicting a user's most meaningful multimedia content includes enabling a sensing device on a user device in response to a user requesting a multimedia operation, performing the multimedia operation for a multimedia content, in response to the multimedia operation, identifying behavioral and interaction cues of the user with the sensing device substantially when the multimedia operation is being performed, updating a recommendation from a set of multimedia content including the multimedia content represented by the behavioral and interaction cues identified, and presenting the updated recommendation to the user.