Adaptive Mobile Web Navigation Structure Based on User History

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Solution Overview

Problem

Navigating large amounts of web content on mobile communication devices can be problematic due to excessive complexity, leading to increased clicks and difficulty in accessing frequently used content.

Innovation Solution

A navigational structure is generated based on user navigation history, filtering out less relevant content and creating direct links between frequently accessed web content portions, optimizing the display on mobile devices by simplifying navigation paths and using user behavior to adapt the content structure dynamically.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a complete navigation structure of all web content is displayed on mobile devices, then all web content is accessible, but navigation complexity increases and user experience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent accessibilityVSAvoidnavigation complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The navigation structure is segmented into multiple levels: a simplified mobile view showing only frequently accessed content, and a complete desktop view showing all content. This segmentation allows the system to present different navigation complexities appropriate to each device type, resolving the contradiction between completeness and simplicity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The mobile navigation structure dynamically adapts based on user behavior patterns. The system learns from navigation history and automatically reorganizes the navigation structure to place frequently accessed content in more accessible positions, reducing navigation complexity while maintaining content accessibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If traditional navigation structures are used on mobile devices, then all web content remains accessible, but the number of clicks to access frequently used content increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent accessibilityVSAvoidaccess time

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by analyzing user navigation patterns in advance and pre-positioning frequently accessed content in optimal locations within the navigation structure. This allows users to access common content with fewer clicks without sacrificing access to less frequently used content.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback loops that continuously monitor user navigation behavior and automatically adjust the navigation structure accordingly. This feedback mechanism ensures that the navigation structure evolves to minimize access time for frequently used content while preserving access to all web content.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS8661328B2Managing web content on a mobile communication device

Publication Date: 2014.02.25 SAP PORTALS ISRAEL

AI summary

Techniques for managing content on a mobile communication device include generating a first navigation structure of web content including a plurality of linked web content portions; identifying a web content navigation history of a user including one or more web content portions accessed by the user in the plurality of linked web content portions; and generating a second navigation structure of the web content, the second navigation structure including links associated with only the one or more web content portions accessed by the user, the second navigation structure displayable on a mobile communication device.