Dynamic Search Service Coordinating Multi-Device Content Retrieval
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current search services are limited to a single platform and do not coordinate or communicate effectively between devices, such as cable set-top boxes and mobile computing devices, resulting in incomplete search results and inefficient information retrieval.
Innovation Solution
A dynamic search system that includes devices with dynamic search applications, allowing for real-time, coordinated searches across multiple platforms, such as set-top boxes, user devices, and content providers, using wireless communication to gather and present comprehensive search results.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a user conducts a search on a single platform (e.g., cable STB or web browser), then the search is simple and quick, but the search results are incomplete and limited to that platform only
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges search capabilities across multiple devices (cable STB, mobile computing device, content provider device) into a unified search system. The devices communicate and coordinate to conduct searches simultaneously across different platforms, combining EPG data, web information, and social network content into comprehensive search results that eliminate information loss across platforms.
2Productivity
If multiple devices conduct independent searches, then each device can search its own content sources, but the search efforts are redundant and not coordinated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where devices communicate search progress and results to each other. When one device conducts a search and obtains results, this information is fed back to other devices in the network, allowing them to adjust or cancel redundant search efforts. This coordination reduces wasted time and improves overall information retrieval efficiency by eliminating duplicate work.
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AI summary
Systems and methods may provide for implementing a dynamic search service. In one example, the method may include receiving information relating to a topic of interest to a user, analyzing the information to determine a search parameter, conducting a coordinated search of content utilizing a plurality of device, generating and gathering results of a coordinated search from the plurality of devices, and generating a result communication including at least one result of the coordinated search.