Cross-Device Search Coordination via Intermediary System
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing technologies face challenges in efficiently generating, displaying, and accessing search results across different computing devices, particularly in coordinating search queries and performing functions between a searching device and a performing device, due to limitations in data exchange and compatibility.
Innovation Solution
A search system that receives search queries from a searching device, generates search results based on device-specific data, and transmits these results to the searching device for display, while also enabling the performing device to perform functions indicated by user selections, using formatting data, access mechanisms, and interface data to ensure compatibility and functionality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If search results are generated and accessed using the same device, then device compatibility is simplified, but functionality is limited to single-device operations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a search system as an intermediary between the searching device and performing device. The search system receives search queries, generates search results, and coordinates the transmission of results and user selections between devices. This mediator approach enables cross-device search functionality while managing the complexity of data exchange through a centralized coordination point.
2Measurement precision
If device-specific data is used to generate search results, then search relevance is improved, but data processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by using device-specific data (first data from the searching device and second data from the performing device) to generate customized search results. The search system processes different data types from different devices to create search results that are relevant to each device's specific characteristics, capabilities, and context, thereby improving search relevance while managing processing complexity through targeted data utilization.
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AI summary
Techniques include receiving a search query from a searching device and one or more of first data corresponding to the searching device or second data corresponding to a performing device. The searching device is configured to transmit search queries to a search system and receive search results from the search system in response to the search queries. Each search result indicates a function for a computing device to perform. The searching device is configured to display the search results, detect user selections of the search results, and transmit indications of the user selections to the performing device. The performing device is configured to perform functions indicated by the search results associated with the user selections in response to receiving the indications. The techniques further include generating search results based on the search query and based on the first and/or second data, and transmitting the search results to the searching device.