Document Relationship Identification via Access Strength Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face challenges in efficiently searching through large collections of documents due to the volume of information, leading to difficulties in locating specific documents and replicating searches, especially across multiple repositories with varying information management rules.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that identify relationships between documents by determining accessed documents, calculating a strength of effects value based on user access, relevance, and feedback, and displaying these relationships visually to facilitate efficient searching.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If users search through large collections of documents manually, then they can locate specific documents, but the search process becomes time-consuming and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system that automatically analyzes document relationships and generates visual displays showing connections between documents. This intermediary processing layer mediates between the user's search query and the large document collection, pre-organizing documents by their relationships so users can quickly navigate to relevant documents without manually searching through voluminous results.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical manual search process with an automated computer-based system that performs relationship analysis, strength of effects calculation, and visual display generation. This substitution eliminates the need for users to manually examine each document or navigate through search results sequentially, significantly reducing search time while maintaining productivity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If documents are stored in multiple repositories with different information management rules, then document storage flexibility is improved, but searching across repositories becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal search system that can operate across multiple repositories with different information management rules. The relationship analysis mechanism identifies connections between documents regardless of their storage location or repository-specific rules, providing a unified approach to searching that works across diverse storage environments while maintaining the flexibility to store documents in appropriate repositories.
3Quantity of substance
If the quantity of documents continues to grow, then information availability is improved, but search results become voluminous and less valuable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential relationship information from large volumes of documents and presents only the most relevant connections in a visual display. Instead of showing users all documents that match a search query, the system extracts and highlights the key relationships and strongest connections, filtering out voluminous but less valuable results while preserving the most important information.
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AI summary
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in order to identify relationships between documents, thereby facilitating a user's search of the documents. In the context of a method, one or more documents accessed by a user from a first document are determined. The method also determines a strength of effects value for each of the one or more documents accessed by the user from the first document based at least partially upon access by the user of the respective documents. The method also provides for a display illustrating the relationships between the first document and the one or more documents based at least partially upon the strength of effects value for the respective documents. The method may provide for the display by defining a visual representation of the one or more documents based upon the strength of effects value for the respective documents.