Online User Profile Management via Keyword Extraction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Advertisers face challenges in effectively targeting specific demographics and interests for online advertising, as existing systems lack comprehensive user profiling and segmentation capabilities, leading to inefficient ad placement and resource allocation.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for managing online user profiles by receiving and processing user activity data, generating keywords from textual content, and updating user profiles to include contextual information, enabling segmentation based on demographics, interests, and behavior.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If comprehensive user profiling and segmentation is implemented, then ad targeting precision and conversion rates improve, but system complexity and data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvead targeting precisionVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments users into distinct profiles based on demographics, interests, and behavior patterns. By dividing the user base into segments with shared characteristics, the system achieves precise targeting without requiring complex analysis of every individual user's complete history, thus reducing computational complexity while maintaining precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary profiling and segmentation of users before ad delivery. By pre-computing user profiles and storing them in databases, the system avoids complex real-time analysis during ad serving, thereby reducing operational complexity while maintaining high targeting precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If detailed user activity data is collected and processed, then user profile accuracy improves, but data processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser profile accuracyVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs data processing and profile generation in advance as a preliminary action. By pre-processing user activity data and creating profiles before ad delivery is needed, the system achieves accurate profiles without incurring real-time processing delays, thus maintaining precision while reducing time loss during critical ad serving operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

By segmenting user data into organized profiles stored in databases, the system reduces the complexity of processing individual user histories in real-time. This segmentation allows for efficient retrieval and matching during ad delivery without requiring complex real-time analysis, thereby reducing processing time while maintaining accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Adaptability or versatility

If more user information is gathered from online activity, then segmentation effectiveness improves, but information processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesegmentation effectivenessVSAvoidinformation processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system organizes collected user information into segmented profiles grouped by demographics, interests, and behavior. This segmentation structure simplifies the processing complexity by providing pre-organized data categories that can be efficiently queried and matched against ad criteria, thereby maintaining segmentation effectiveness while reducing processing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The user profile system serves multiple functions: it stores demographic data, tracks interests, records behavior patterns, and enables various targeting strategies. By creating a universal profile structure that handles multiple data types and purposes, the system avoids the complexity of separate processing systems for different information types, thus maintaining versatility while reducing overall processing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS8504411B1Systems and methods for online user profiling and segmentation
Publication Date: 2013.08.06 YAHOO AD TECH LLC
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AI summary

A computer-implemented method is provided for managing online user profiles. The method includes receiving information about online activity of a user, the information including at least a unique user ID and a URL requested by the user; fetching textual content associated with the URL requested by the user; generating one or more keywords based on the textual content; and generating or updating a user profile of the user to include the one or more keywords. A system for managing online user profiles is also provided.