Answer Form Processing System Omitting Unselected Options

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing answer form processing systems consume unnecessary display space and distract from the essential information by displaying all options, including those not selected by the purchaser, making it difficult for shop staff to smoothly confirm the answer form.

Innovation Solution

An answer form processing system that compares the question form and answer form line-by-line, omitting lines indicating options not selected by the purchaser, thereby restricting output to only the selected options and saving display space while ensuring easy examination of the answer form.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If all options in the answer form are displayed, then complete information is provided, but display space is consumed and examination efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidexamination efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and displays only the selected options from the answer form, separating them from the unselected options. This is achieved by comparing the answer form with the question form to identify which options have been selected by the purchaser, and then displaying only those selected options to the shop staff, thereby eliminating unnecessary display space while preserving the essential information.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Loss of information

If all options in the answer form are displayed, then complete information is provided, but display space is consumed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation completenessVSAvoiddisplay space

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and displays only the selected options from the answer form, separating them from the unselected options. This is achieved by comparing the answer form with the question form to identify which options have been selected by the purchaser, and then displaying only those selected options to the shop staff, thereby eliminating unnecessary display space while preserving the essential information.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Loss of information

If all options in the answer form are displayed, then complete information is provided, but distraction from essential information occurs

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation completenessVSAvoiddistraction from essential information

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and displays only the selected options from the answer form, separating them from the unselected options. This is achieved by comparing the answer form with the question form to identify which options have been selected by the purchaser, and then displaying only those selected options to the shop staff, thereby eliminating unnecessary display space while preserving the essential information.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS10169809B2Answer form processing system, answer form processing method and computer storage medium

Publication Date: 2019.01.01 RAKUTEN GROUP INC

AI summary

An answer form capable of saving display space and visibly easy to examine is provided. An answer form processing method includes the steps of obtaining a question form including one or more lines of a question sentence and a plurality of consecutive lines of options, obtaining an answer form that indicates an answer for the question sentence from an answerer, the answer form being generated by adding one or more characters to the one or more lines in the question form, each of the lines indicating the option, comparing the question form and the answer form on a line-by-line basis, and outputting at least a part of each line in the answer form while restricting output of the line which matches the corresponding line in the question form, thereby outputting the answer form where the line indicating the option to which one or more characters are not added by the answerer is omitted.