Content Management Device Keyword Selection Contradiction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing content management techniques face challenges in efficiently allowing users to designate and search for desired content, particularly image data, due to the provision of numerous irrelevant keywords, leading to user confusion and increased search time.

Innovation Solution

A content management system and method that includes a storage device with a search database for registering and searching content, featuring a registration unit for associating new content with designated keywords and a search unit for extracting and displaying relevant content based on user-designated search keywords, thereby reducing user burden and improving search efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple keyword candidates are provided to the user for content search, then the user has more options to find desired content, but the user becomes confused and spends more time searching

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvekeyword selection optionsVSAvoidsearch operation simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the most relevant keywords from the database and presents them to the user, rather than showing all available keywords. This selective extraction reduces the number of keywords displayed while maintaining search effectiveness, thereby resolving the contradiction between providing options and maintaining simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies different quality levels to different keywords by prioritizing and ranking them based on relevance to the user's query and historical usage patterns. High-quality (most relevant) keywords are prominently displayed, while less relevant ones are either omitted or displayed with lower priority, creating a differentiated presentation that resolves the contradiction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Reliability

If all registered keywords are displayed during search, then comprehensive search coverage is achieved, but user confusion increases and search time is extended

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesearch coverageVSAvoidsearch time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary filtering and ranking of keywords before presenting them to the user. By pre-processing the keyword list to identify and prioritize the most relevant keywords based on database statistics and user history, the system ensures comprehensive coverage is maintained while significantly reducing the time users need to spend searching.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies partial action by displaying only a subset of the most relevant keywords rather than all available keywords. This selective display maintains sufficient search coverage for most user needs while dramatically reducing the time and cognitive load required to find the desired keyword, effectively resolving the time-loss contradiction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Adaptability or versatility

If the system provides both designated and undesignated keywords, then more search possibilities are available, but user confusion increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesearch flexibilityVSAvoiduser clarity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments keywords into distinct categories: designated keywords (those the user has previously selected) and undesignated keywords (other available options). By clearly separating and differently presenting these two types of keywords, the system maintains search flexibility while preventing user confusion about which keywords are most appropriate to use.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS8694484B2Content management device, content management system, and content management method
Publication Date: 2014.04.08 BROTHER KOGYO KK
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AI summary

A content management device for managing acquired content in a searchable manner, includes a storage device that stores a search database in which a plurality of keywords and content are registered; a registration unit that registers new content in the search database; and a search unit that searches content registered in the search database. The registration unit performs operations includes: extracting a plurality of keyword candidates associated with the new content from the search database; displaying the extracted keyword candidates; and registering a keyword candidate designated from among the displayed keyword candidates in the search database, as a search keyword in association with the new content. The search unit performs operations includes: displaying a plurality of search keywords registered in the search database; extracting content associated with a search keyword designated from among the displayed search keywords from the search database; and displaying the extracted content.