Digital Assistant Page Collection Interaction Window

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing digital assistants struggle to efficiently process and manage collections of pages, leading to suboptimal user interaction and task completion in scenarios involving multiple pages, such as in office suites, due to limitations in how instructions are received and operations are executed.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that allow users to interact with a digital assistant through an interaction window to receive and execute instructions on a collection of pages, including operations like closing, summarizing, or editing, by determining the relevant page collection and performing targeted operations based on user input, enhancing user efficiency and convenience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If users interact with digital assistant through traditional methods requiring explicit page identification, then the digital assistant can process individual pages, but user processing efficiency deteriorates and operation complexity increases when dealing with multiple pages

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser processing efficiencyVSAvoidoperation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the collection of pages into a distinct conceptual unit that can be independently addressed by the digital assistant. Users can select multiple pages as a group and issue single commands to perform operations on the entire collection, eliminating the need to process each page individually while maintaining clear operational control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism (the page collection concept) that bridges the user and the multiple pages. This intermediary allows users to interact with the digital assistant using simplified commands without explicitly identifying each page, while the digital assistant internally manages the individual page operations through the collection interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If digital assistant requires explicit page identification for each operation, then operation precision is maintained, but instruction complexity and user effort increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperation precisionVSAvoidinstruction complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the identification task from the operation task. Instead of requiring users to identify and specify each page individually in their instructions, the system segments pages into collections that can be identified as a single unit, thereby maintaining operational precision while reducing instruction complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent performs preliminary action by pre-organizing pages into collections before the user issues operations. The system proactively structures the page data into identifiable collections, so when users issue commands, the precise target is already established, eliminating the need for complex explicit identification in each instruction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20240402885A1Method, apparatus, device, and storage medium for information processing
Publication Date: 2024.12.05 BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, a method, apparatus, device, and storage medium for information processing are provided. The method includes in the presence of a first page collection, receiving a first instruction from a user through an interaction window between the user and a digital assistant, the first page collection comprising at least one page; and performing a target operation corresponding to the first instruction based on the first page collection. Therefore, the digital assistant can be applied in scenarios where there is a page collection, in order to provide users with convenient and efficient services.