Dynamic Resource Interlinking for Web Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
In web-based systems, users face challenges in accessing relevant information due to the loosely coupled nature of Web 2.0 systems, where user-generated content grows uncoordinated, leading to information overload and difficulties in finding task-specific resources, as conventional tags are not selective enough and vary in terms and quality, making it hard to locate relevant content efficiently.
Innovation Solution
A dynamic interlinking mechanism that allows users to create individual or collaborative links between resources, represented in a graph-like structure, enabling efficient navigation without relying on tags, with a GUI that displays frequently used links and recommends related resources based on user-generated interlinks, allowing for both individual and community navigation paths.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If users are permitted to add content to web-based systems, then the quantity and diversity of available content increases, but the difficulty of finding relevant information increases due to information overload and uncoordinated growth
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the navigation problem by introducing multiple navigation dimensions (tags, categories, user-generated links) rather than relying on a single hierarchical structure. This allows users to approach content from different angles and find relevant information more efficiently despite the large volume of content.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces user-generated interlinks as an intermediary mechanism between content and users. These interlinks act as mediators that connect users to relevant content based on community knowledge and experience, reducing the difficulty of finding information in large content systems.
2Ease of operation
If conventional tags are used to characterize content, then content can be categorized and searched, but the tags are not selective enough and vary in terms and quality, making searching difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple navigation approaches (traditional tags, categories, and user-generated interlinks) into a unified navigation system. This combination leverages the strengths of each approach: tags provide broad categorization, while user-generated interlinks provide precise, context-specific connections, thereby improving both search ease and characterization precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameters of content characterization by allowing users to create custom interlinks with specific meanings and contexts. Instead of relying solely on fixed tags with limited selectivity, the system allows dynamic creation of navigational parameters that better match user needs and improve search precision.
3Productivity
If users create individual interlinks between resources, then personalized navigation paths improve task completion, but the system complexity increases due to managing individual and collaborative links
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the interlinking system universal by allowing it to serve multiple functions: individual customization, community knowledge sharing, and system-wide navigation improvement. The same interlinking mechanism benefits both individual users through personalized paths and the overall system through aggregated wisdom, thereby improving productivity without proportionally increasing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements self-service by allowing users to automatically benefit from community-generated interlinks without manually creating each link. The system automatically aggregates and presents relevant interlinks based on user behavior and community contributions, reducing the complexity burden on individual users while maintaining high productivity.
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AI summary
A network-based communication and information discovery solution that pertains to network-accessible resources and the use of interlinks among resources. In one embodiment, dynamic interlinking of resources is proposed, wherein the resources reside in a web-based system and are accessible via web-clients. The resources can be representable by an administrator in a graph-like structure interlinking the resources with each other and thus defining a navigation model. An extended navigation model can be implemented by a user-generated, individual or collaborative interlinking functionality.