User-Specific Summary Generation via Skill-Based Content Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current online social networks and collaboration tools lack the ability to determine a user's skill level in relation to specific content and adjust the complexity of messages accordingly, leading to difficulties in understanding and engaging with posts, especially for users with varying levels of expertise.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that analyzes user data to determine skill levels and content complexity, generating user-specific summaries by extracting relevant information and presenting it in a way that bridges the gap between familiar and unfamiliar concepts, using network graphs and natural language processing to create an 'on-ramp' for users to engage intelligently with messages.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If user-specific summaries are generated based on skill level analysis, then user understanding and engagement with content improves, but system complexity and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser understandingVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments users into different skill levels (novice, intermediate, expert) and segments content into different complexity levels. This segmentation allows the system to match appropriate content summaries to appropriate user skill levels, improving ease of operation while managing system complexity through structured categorization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of content presentation by adjusting summary complexity based on user skill level. For novice users, more detailed and explanatory summaries are provided, while expert users receive more concise, technical summaries. This parameter adjustment resolves the contradiction by adapting output complexity to user needs rather than uniformly increasing system complexity for all users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If content complexity is adjusted to match user skill level, then user engagement improves, but information loss may occur in simplified summaries

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent adaptabilityVSAvoidinformation loss
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial action by providing different levels of summary detail appropriate to user skill level. For novice users, more comprehensive summaries are provided to ensure understanding, while expert users receive selective, concise summaries. This partial action approach adapts content delivery without uniformly oversimplifying for all users, thereby reducing information loss while maintaining adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback mechanisms to adjust summary complexity based on user interactions and skill level assessments. By monitoring user engagement and understanding, the system can refine its summary generation to maintain information accuracy while adapting to user needs, balancing adaptability with information preservation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Measurement precision

If network graphs are used to analyze user relationships and content connections, then personalized summary accuracy improves, but computational requirements and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveskill level detection accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-building and maintaining network graphs of user relationships and content connections during normal system operation. This allows skill level detection and content matching to be performed more quickly during actual user interactions, as the foundational data structure is already in place rather than being constructed in real-time, thus reducing processing time while maintaining detection accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11250085B2User-specific summary generation based on communication content analysis
Publication Date: 2022.02.15 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

The method, computer program product and computer system may include computing device which may collect application data from one or more applications and archive the application data into a datastore. The computing device may generate a network graph based on the archived application data. The computing device may detect a user's focus on a piece of content contained within the one or more applications, retrieve data associated with the piece of content and determine the user's skill in relation to the piece of content. The computing device may determine the complexity of the piece of content in relation to the determined skill of the user and generate and present a summary of the piece of content.