Dual-Panel Interface for Personalized Content and Support

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional web page applications lead to high call volumes and resource wastage due to users seeking answers to product or service-related questions, either through call support centers or inefficient web page searches, and chatbot interfaces that obscure content.

Innovation Solution

A content platform utilizing machine learning and natural language processing to provide a dual-panel user interface, where one panel displays content and another for conversational text, processing user interactions to generate personalized responses, thus reducing the need for call support and improving resource utilization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a chatbot interface is used to answer user questions, then user support is improved, but the chatbot interface obscures the content displayed on the web page

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser supportVSAvoidcontent visibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The interface is divided into two separate panels: a first panel for displaying web page content and a second panel for displaying chatbot conversations. This segmentation allows both the chatbot functionality and content visibility to coexist without obscuring each other, as each component occupies its own dedicated space in the user interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of operation

If users search for answers on web pages or call support centers, then user questions are addressed, but computing and networking resources are wasted

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser supportVSAvoidcomputing resources
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The chatbot enables users to obtain answers to their questions directly through the web page interface without needing to call support centers or perform extensive searches. The chatbot processes user queries and provides immediate responses, allowing users to serve themselves and eliminating the need for resource-intensive support center operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Loss of information

If a conventional web page application is used, then content is displayed, but user questions cannot be efficiently answered

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent displayVSAvoiduser support efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges two previously separate functions into a unified interface: content display and user support. By integrating the chatbot functionality alongside the content display in a dual-panel layout, users can both view information and obtain support simultaneously within the same web page, improving support efficiency without compromising content display.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS11334527B2Systems and methods for utilizing machine learning and natural language processing to provide a dual-panel user interface
Publication Date: 2022.05.17 VERIZON PATENT & LICENSING INC
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AI summary

A device receives provides content to a client device via a dual-panel user interface that includes a first panel and a second panel. The device receives, from the client device, information indicating a user interaction, and processes the information, with a first model, to determine a question based on the user interaction. The device utilizes natural language processing with the question to determine an intent of the question, and processes the intent of the question, with a second model, to map the intent of the question to a content answer to the question. The device adds additional user information, associated with a user of the client device, to the content answer to generate a personalized content response, and updates the first panel with the personalized content response to generate an updated first panel. The device provides the updated first panel, via the dual-panel user interface, to the client device.