Information Display System Using Utilization Characteristics
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current online merchandising systems lack a technique to display post information beneficial to each user based on usage histories of appliances, failing to provide effective benchmarks for judging the quality, reliability, and fairness of review and word-of-mouth information.
Innovation Solution
An information displaying method that calculates utilization characteristics from usage history information and associates them with post information items, allowing users to easily search and evaluate post information from users with similar utilization characteristics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If post information from multiple users is displayed without filtering, then the quantity of available information increases, but the quality and relevance of information for each user decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments post information based on utilization characteristics, dividing the information pool into categories that match different user profiles. By segmenting both the information and users, the system presents relevant information to each user without losing the overall quantity of available information in the system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by tailoring the information presentation to each user's specific utilization characteristics. Instead of uniform information display, the system adjusts the quality and type of information shown based on local user needs, ensuring high relevance for each user while maintaining the complete information set across all users.
2Reliability
If utilization characteristic calculation and matching is implemented, then the relevance of post information for each user improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes parameters by utilizing existing usage history data that appliances already generate. Instead of implementing complex new tracking systems, the system leverages existing operational parameters (usage frequency, duration, patterns) to calculate utilization characteristics, reducing system complexity while maintaining high information relevance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs self-service by automatically calculating utilization characteristics and matching users with relevant post information without requiring manual user input or complex interaction. The appliance's own usage data serves as the basis for matching, eliminating the need for additional survey mechanisms or manual profiling.
3Measurement precision
If usage history information is collected and processed, then the accuracy of user profiling improves, but the loss of time for data processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by collecting and storing usage history information continuously in the background as appliances operate. This data accumulation happens proactively before any matching or analysis is needed, so when post information needs to be matched to users, the profiling data is already prepared, minimizing processing time while maintaining high accuracy.
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AI summary
An information displaying method includes: obtaining, for each of users, usage history information items on one or more appliances used by the user; calculating a utilization characteristic based on a usage history information item on a predetermined appliance among the one or more appliances used by a predetermined user among the users, the utilization characteristic being of the predetermined user using the predetermined appliance, and the usage history information item on the obtained predetermined appliance; obtaining, for each of the user, a post information item posted by the user; and displaying, in association with each other, (i) a utilization characteristic information item on the utilization characteristic calculated in the calculating and (ii) the post information item posted by the predetermined user, the utilization characteristic being of the predetermined user using the predetermined appliance, and the post information item being obtained in the obtaining of a post information item.