Browser Plugin Integrating Social Business Network Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
In integrated information environments, users face challenges in accessing relevant context-based information while discussing topics, as their collaboration processes are often disconnected from major information sources, leading to an abundance of irrelevant information and difficulty in finding useful data, especially in enterprise settings where data multiplication occurs rapidly.
Innovation Solution
An integrated connection between a Social Business Network (SBN) and web pages is established, providing context-based relevant information through a browser plugin component that can automatically retrieve and present metadata, conversations, and other relevant content from SBN data sources, allowing users to collaborate directly within the web page context.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users access information through traditional search methods in integrated information environments, then they can find information from multiple sources, but they face an abundance of irrelevant information and difficulty in finding useful data
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments information retrieval by integrating social business network data with web page content, dividing the information space into relevant contextual segments (social interactions, discussions, profiles) and irrelevant segments, allowing users to access only the relevant portions needed for their current web page context
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies local quality by providing context-specific information retrieval where the relevance of retrieved information is determined by its relationship to the current web page being viewed, ensuring that information from social business networks is locally adapted to match the specific context of each web page rather than providing generic search results
2Ease of operation
If collaboration processes are disconnected from major information sources, then users can discuss topics freely, but they experience difficulty in accessing relevant context-based information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges collaboration processes with information sources by integrating social business network functionality directly into web pages, combining web browsing, social interactions, and information retrieval into a unified interface where collaboration and information access occur together in the same context
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses the web page as an intermediary that connects users to both information sources and collaboration tools, serving as a mediator that integrates social business network data with web content to provide seamless access to context-based information during collaboration activities
3Loss of information
If data multiplication occurs rapidly in enterprise settings, then information availability increases, but users face challenges in finding useful data among the abundance of information
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-integrating social business network data with web page content in advance, organizing information by relevance to the current context before users need it, so that when users access web pages, the relevant information is already prepared and positioned for immediate access without requiring time-consuming searches
Data Source
AI summary
A method and a device are disclosed including an integrated connection between a Social Business Network (SBN) and a webpage configured to provide context-based relevant information about content and/or metadata associated with the webpage. A SBN provides business-oriented information in a social networking environment. In some embodiments, SBN connection automatically provides information about the webpage's owner, or is used used or to start a conversation with another user. In still other embodiments, the SBN connection may retrieve information from external sources such as Facebook®, web, and databases associated with the SBN, including prior relevant conversations, project information, participant information, articles, historical data, and the like. In various embodiments, the SBN connection is in the form of a browser plugin component, which may be enhanced by custom software cartridges developed by customers of SBN to dynamically alter the behavior or add functionality to the SBN plugin component.