Browsing Record Page Layout for Faster Historical Content Retrieval

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulties in quickly finding and accessing historical browsing content due to the need to recall previous actions, leading to low success rates in content retrieval.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that generate a browsing record page with historical content areas, each containing descriptive information for various content types, allowing users to quickly select and access desired content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If users rely on recalling previous actions to find historical browsing content, then they can access content without additional storage structures, but the time required to find content increases and search success rate decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent search timeVSAvoidbrowsing record page structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by automatically generating and storing browsing records with descriptive information as users view content. The browsing record page is pre-populated with historical content descriptions, eliminating the need for users to recall previous actions. This advance preparation of search information directly reduces content search time while the structured organization keeps complexity manageable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates simplified copies of historical browsing content in the form of descriptive information (titles, thumbnails, metadata) displayed on the browsing record page. Instead of storing and retrieving complete content histories, the system uses these informational copies to enable quick identification and access to original content, reducing search time without requiring complex storage structures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Reliability

If users manually navigate through previous actions to locate historical content, then no additional information processing is required, but the search success rate becomes low

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesearch success rateVSAvoidcontent retrieval process
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSExtent of automation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service by automatically generating browsing records, organizing them by content type, and presenting them on the browsing record page without requiring user intervention. The system autonomously captures browsing history, processes it into descriptive information, and makes it searchable, thereby significantly improving search success rate while maintaining reasonable automation levels.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback by analyzing user browsing behavior patterns and automatically generating relevant descriptive information for the browsing record page. The system monitors what content users view and creates corresponding records with metadata that reflects actual browsing history, ensuring high accuracy in content retrieval and improving search success rate through data-driven automation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Productivity

If historical browsing content is stored without centralized organization, then storage structure remains simple, but users cannot quickly find desired content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent retrieval efficiencyVSAvoidbrowsing record page organization
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies segmentation by dividing historical browsing content into distinct categories or content types (e.g., videos, articles, images) and organizing them separately on the browsing record page. Each segment represents a specific content type with its own descriptive information, allowing users to quickly locate desired content by category rather than searching through undifferentiated storage, thereby improving retrieval efficiency while maintaining manageable organizational complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12572608B2Method and apparatus for processing historical browsing content electronic device and storage medium
Publication Date: 2026.03.10 TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO LTD
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AI summary

Processing historical browsing content with an electronic device which can generate a first user operation page of a target application; in response to a historical reference operation triggered via the first user operation page, generate a browsing record page including a historical content area, one historical content area corresponding to one content type, and each historical content area including first content description information; and in response to a presenting operation for first content description information selected from the historical content area, generate target historical browsing content corresponding to the selected first content description information, and therefore the first content description information of the historical browsing content under each content type may be provided in a centralized mode through a browsing record page, so that content desired to be browsed again may be found in a short time, improving the search efficiency for the historical browsing content.