Electronic Document Evaluation via Reference Extraction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for evaluating the relevance of electronic documents, such as search engines and web browsers, require explicit user queries or document downloads, leading to inefficient bandwidth usage and high power consumption, especially in battery-powered devices.
Innovation Solution
A method and electronic device that acquire an electronic document, extract references, send requests to a server for evaluation, and integrate the evaluation results back into the document, allowing for context-influenced ranking without explicit user queries or document downloads.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a search query is entered to get the rank of a web document, then the relevance evaluation is obtained, but bandwidth is excessively used and power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-calculating and storing quality metrics (such as PageRank, HITS, or other link analysis metrics) for web documents before they are actually needed. When a user accesses a document, the evaluation is already available or can be quickly retrieved, eliminating the need for real-time computation and reducing both power consumption and bandwidth usage during actual document access operations.
2Measurement precision
If a web address is entered in the web browser to get the rank, then the evaluation is obtained, but the web document must be downloaded causing bandwidth waste
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the quality evaluation metric from the web document itself by computing it based on the document's URL, metadata, or partial content without requiring the full document download. The evaluation is obtained by analyzing link structures, document properties, or cached information, thereby separating the evaluation process from the document retrieval process and minimizing bandwidth consumption.
3Loss of information
If multiple web documents are downloaded during a communication session, then more information is available, but bandwidth is excessively used and battery drains quickly
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-evaluates multiple web documents using link analysis and quality metrics before the communication session begins or during idle periods. This allows the system to pre-determine which documents are most relevant and likely to be accessed, enabling efficient information retrieval during the actual communication session without downloading unnecessary documents, thus improving productivity while maintaining information availability.
Data Source
AI summary
A method, an electronic device (110), a computer program product, and a computer readable medium for obtaining an evaluation of an electronic document that is referred to in an acquired electronic document. The electronic device (110) comprises an acquiring unit (111) adapted to acquire an electronic document including one or more references to one or more other electronic documents. The electronic device (110) also comprises a processing unit (112). The processing unit (112) is adapted to retrieve the reference(s) from the acquired electronic document. Furthermore, the processing unit is adapted to send to a second server (130) a request for an evaluation of the electronic document(s) associated with the retrieved reference(s), and receive from the second server (130) a response including the result of the evaluation.