Context-Aware Pop-Up Guidance for Software User Intent

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current software systems fail to accurately determine user intentions, limiting their ability to provide value-added content that enhances the learning experience and reduces the learning curve for users.

Innovation Solution

A computer system that receives an input message to present a pop-up window, analyzes the content area to generate analysis content, and displays value-added content based on this analysis, using a processor and memory to execute a method that includes capturing text and image content, assigning weights, and searching a database for relevant information.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If text commentary prompts are included in software to guide users, then ease of operation is improved, but the clarity and effectiveness of guidance deteriorates because the software cannot determine user intentions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser guidanceVSAvoiduser intention determination
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system captures user interaction data (mouse movements, clicks, text input) and uses this feedback to dynamically determine user intentions. The NLP module analyzes captured text content to understand what the user is trying to accomplish, then provides tailored guidance based on this understanding rather than generic prompts.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically captures and analyzes user actions without requiring explicit user input. The background process continuously monitors user interactions, captures relevant content areas, and generates appropriate guidance autonomously, allowing the system to serve itself in understanding user needs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of operation

If basic function prompts are provided, then ease of operation is improved, but the value-added content that would enhance learning experience is not provided

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebasic function guidanceVSAvoidvalue-added content provision
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The guidance system transitions from static, pre-defined prompts to dynamic, context-aware content generation. The system adapts the type, depth, and format of guidance based on real-time analysis of user actions, capturing the current content area and determining what value-added information would be most helpful for that specific context.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes multiple parameters including the level of detail, type of content (text, image, video), and timing of guidance based on analyzed user behavior. By monitoring user proficiency indicators and interaction patterns, the system adjusts guidance parameters to provide appropriate value-added content rather than uniform basic prompts.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Adaptability or versatility

If the software attempts to provide comprehensive guidance, then adaptability is improved, but the complexity of the system increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveguidance customizationVSAvoidsystem architecture
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an NLP module as an intermediary between user actions and guidance generation. This mediator captures raw user interactions, processes them through natural language understanding, and translates them into meaningful intent classifications, simplifying the overall architecture while enabling sophisticated adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The guidance system is segmented into independent functional modules: action capture module, content area capture module, NLP analysis module, and guidance generation module. Each module handles a specific aspect of the process, allowing the system to achieve high adaptability through modular components rather than a monolithic complex structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12112184B2Value-added content providing method and computer system thereof
Publication Date: 2024.10.08 INVENTEC PUDONG TECH CORPOARTION
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AI summary

A value-added content providing method for a computer system includes receiving an input message indicating to present a pop-up window in a display area of the computer system; obtaining a content area in the display area according to the input message; analyzing the content area to generate an analysis content; and providing and displaying a value-added content in the pop-up window according to the analysis content.