Associative Module Integrating Isolated Internet Services

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems fail to integrate information from various Internet services in logical and meaningful ways, keeping services like Web pages, audio, video, and chat services isolated from each other despite potential logical or topical relationships.

Innovation Solution

A rendering module obtains information from a network, and an associative module analyzes this information to identify key pieces, allowing additional related content to be presented to users, such as notes, comments, ratings, and hyperlinks, while enabling connections to relevant chat rooms and page-biased searches.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If information from various Internet services is kept isolated, then service stability is maintained, but information integration and user experience deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation integrationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an associative module as an intermediary component that receives information from multiple Internet services and performs analysis to identify relationships. This mediator integrates information from isolated services without requiring changes to the services themselves, thus maintaining service stability while achieving information integration through the associative module that analyzes and connects related information across services.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If additional related content is presented to users, then user experience is enhanced, but information processing complexity increases

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

Solution Approach 1:

The associative module autonomously analyzes received information to identify key pieces and determine relationships without requiring manual user input or configuration. The system self-services by automatically performing analysis, identifying related information, and presenting additional content to users based on its own assessment of what is relevant, thus enhancing user experience while managing processing complexity through automated decision-making.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Measurement precision

If comprehensive information analysis is performed, then information integration quality is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation analysis accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The associative module extracts only the key pieces of information from the comprehensive data received from multiple Internet services, rather than processing and presenting all information equally. By identifying and focusing on essential elements and their relationships, the system achieves effective information integration with improved accuracy while reducing the time required for analysis and presentation of relevant content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS7734631B2Associating information with an electronic document
Publication Date: 2010.06.08 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

A system for associating information comprises an association module that uses anchoring information to associate a first piece of information with a second piece of information, wherein the second piece of information is not part of the first piece of information. The system further includes a rendering module that presents the second piece of information for use. Methods for using such a system are also described.