Search Engine Content Version Switching Mechanism

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Solution Overview

Problem

In real-time search engine environments, partial updates to digital content can lead to user experience issues such as broken links and inconsistent search results, as existing systems struggle to manage and display updates efficiently, particularly when dealing with large volumes of data.

Innovation Solution

Implementing an atomic switching mechanism between versions of digital content, where updates are indexed and made visible only after they are complete, ensuring that users see either the old or new version, but not partial updates, thereby maintaining a consistent and orderly display of information.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Speed

If partial updates to digital content are displayed in real-time search engine environments, then the system responds quickly to content changes, but user experience deteriorates due to broken links and inconsistent search results

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveresponse speed to content changesVSAvoiduser experience consistency

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by completely indexing all updated content before making it visible to users. Updates are staged in a buffer zone where they are fully processed and validated before being switched from the old version to the new version, ensuring no partial or broken content reaches the user.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The content versioning system segments content into distinct versions (old version and new version) with a clear transition mechanism. This segmentation allows the system to manage updates atomically, switching between complete versions rather than displaying partial transition states, thereby maintaining reliability while enabling rapid updates.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If updates are made visible immediately during indexing, then the system maintains high productivity, but manufacturing precision deteriorates due to inconsistent content display

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent update throughputVSAvoidcontent version consistency

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system completes the entire indexing process for updated content before making it visible, ensuring manufacturing precision is maintained. The preliminary indexing phase processes all content changes in the background without user exposure, and only after complete processing does the system switch to the new version, preserving both productivity and precision.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary switching mechanism that acts as a mediator between the indexing process and content display. This intermediary ensures that only fully indexed content is presented to users, maintaining precision while allowing high-speed parallel indexing operations to continue in the background, thus preserving productivity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If the system switches between content versions atomically, then user experience consistency is improved, but device complexity increases due to version management mechanisms

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent display consistencyVSAvoidversion switching mechanism

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The version switching mechanism segments content into distinct versions with clear demarcation points. This segmentation simplifies the switching logic by creating well-defined transition states rather than requiring complex partial-update management, thereby improving reliability while keeping the complexity manageable through clear version boundaries.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system maintains copies of content in different versions (old and new) during the transition period. This copying approach allows atomic switching between complete versions without requiring complex in-place modifications, simplifying the switching mechanism while ensuring consistent user experience through complete version replacements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

4Productivity

If multiple feeds are updated concurrently, then system productivity is improved, but user experience deteriorates due to potential partial updates visibility

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconcurrent update processingVSAvoidupdate completeness

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments concurrent feed updates into independent versioned units, each with its own complete old and new versions. This segmentation allows parallel processing of multiple feeds while ensuring atomic switching within each feed, maintaining both high productivity through concurrency and reliability through complete version transitions that prevent partial update visibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10984189B2Search engine content switch

Publication Date: 2021.04.20 YAHOO ASSETS LLC

AI summary

Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein relate to switching between versions of digital content to be displayed, such as to a user, in a real-time searching environment, for example.