DOI Presentation System for Intuitive User Identification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current Digital Object Unique Identifiers (DOIs) are difficult for users to intuitively identify due to their complex graphic patterns, requiring additional text which is limited by space and can be misleading, making it hard for users to accurately determine the information they contain.

Innovation Solution

An information presentation method and apparatus that monitors a designated operation for a DOI and presents profile information corresponding to it, allowing users to learn the information without scanning, using a monitoring module and presentation module to display the DOI and its profile in separate regions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If additional text is added to the DOI pattern to explain and illustrate the DOI, then user identifiability is improved, but the dimensional limit of the pattern restricts the number of literal descriptions that can be added

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser identifiabilityVSAvoidpattern dimension
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transitions from two-dimensional text labels to three-dimensional spatial arrangement by positioning profile information in a separate display region that can be activated through designated operations. This allows comprehensive information presentation without constraining the DOI pattern itself, resolving the contradiction between limited pattern area and need for extensive descriptions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent divides the information presentation into two independent parts: the DOI pattern itself and the profile information display region. This segmentation allows the pattern to maintain its compact form while the profile information provides comprehensive descriptions in a separate, expandable space, eliminating the dimensional constraint.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of operation

If literal descriptions are added to the DOI pattern, then user identification is facilitated, but the limited number of descriptions makes it difficult to accurately indicate actual information contained in the DOI

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser identificationVSAvoidinformation accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent pre-positions the profile information in a separate display region that is activated when users perform designated operations on the DOI pattern. This preliminary arrangement ensures that comprehensive and accurate information is readily available without cluttering the pattern itself, allowing users to access complete information while maintaining pattern integrity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism (the display region activated by designated operations) that mediates between the compact DOI pattern and the comprehensive information it contains. This intermediary allows accurate information presentation without directly modifying the pattern structure, resolving the contradiction between simplicity and completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Loss of information

If a corresponding device scans and decodes the DOI, then information extraction is achieved, but the process is complex and requires external devices

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation extractionVSAvoiddecoding process
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent enables the DOI presentation system to serve itself by directly displaying profile information in the interface when users perform designated operations. This eliminates the need for external scanning devices and complex decoding processes, allowing information extraction through simple user interactions with the displayed content itself.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10394755B2Information presentation method and apparatus
Publication Date: 2019.08.27 ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD
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AI summary

An information presentation method and apparatus. The method comprises: monitoring a designated operation for a DOI; and when it is detected that the designated operation is executed for the DOI, presenting profile information corresponding to the DOI. In the method, when a DOI is presented in an interface, a user only needs to perform a designated operation for the DOI, and profile information corresponding to the DOI is displayed on the interface; and the profile information corresponding to the DOI is generated based on all information contained in the DOI itself, and can accurately reflect the information in the DOI, so that the user can intuitively learn the information contained in the DOI without using other devices to scan and decode the DOI, thereby effectively improving the identification degree of the DOI and simplifying the operation process.