C-K Canvas Ideation Platform for Accurate Contextual Search

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing artificial intelligence-based expert systems for new drug development face challenges in accurately responding to complex search situations due to the difficulty in constructing queries that reflect context and ambiguity in sentence-type queries, leading to inaccurate search results.

Innovation Solution

A diagram-based ideation platform apparatus and method using a C-K canvas, which divides concepts and knowledge into separate spaces and connects them through a chaining process, allowing for the diagrammatic definition of complex problem-solving contexts and facilitating solution search through a C-K canvas module, card management, and case management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If sentence-type queries are used in expert systems, then the system can operate with a simple query interface, but the accuracy of search results deteriorates due to ambiguity and difficulty in constructing queries that reflect complex contexts

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequery interface simplicityVSAvoidsearch result accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the query construction process into multiple dimensions (e.g., disease, compound, mechanism, indication) that can be independently selected and combined. This allows users to build complex queries through modular dimension selection rather than constructing ambiguous sentences, thereby maintaining ease of operation while improving search accuracy through structured, unambiguous query formulation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If the expert system uses a multi-dimensional data structure, then it can respond to multiple search situations, but the difficulty of constructing queries that reflect complex contexts increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse to multiple search situationsVSAvoidquery construction complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transforms the complex multi-dimensional query construction problem into a simpler dimensional selection process. Instead of requiring users to construct sentences that navigate multiple dimensions simultaneously, the system presents predefined dimensional categories (disease, compound, mechanism, etc.) that users can independently select and combine, effectively adding a structural dimension to query construction that simplifies the process while maintaining versatility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple queries for each dimension are written and searched separately, then the expert system can respond to multiple search situations and relieve users' trouble, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse to multiple search situationsVSAvoidsystem structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple dimensional queries into a unified search framework. Instead of requiring separate search operations for each dimension, the system integrates disease, compound, mechanism, and other dimensional parameters into a single coordinated query execution process, reducing system complexity while maintaining the ability to handle multiple search situations through unified dimensional coordination.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS12585701B2Ideation platform device and method using diagram
Publication Date: 2026.03.24 HOMO MIMICUS CO LTD
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AI summary

An ideation platform device and method using a diagram are disclosed. An ideation platform device using a diagram, according to one embodiment of the present invention, can comprise: a C-K canvas module for providing a C-K canvas divided into a concept space and a knowledge space and connecting a concept and knowledge to each other on the C-K canvas through a chaining process so as to help a solution search for resolving a problem; and an instance management module for storing and managing, as one instance, the C-K canvas, for which a solution search is completed, including the concept, the knowledge, and information about an interconnection relationship.