Entity Card Interface With Topic Links for Cross-Platform Search

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing collaborative work environments face challenges in efficiently locating and synthesizing relevant content across multiple platforms, making it difficult to identify related entities and provide accurate responses to user queries.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method using a network architecture with large language models and trained classifiers to generate and display content through an entity card interface, which includes selectable topic elements linked via a topic-based data structure, facilitating efficient navigation and content synthesis.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If discrete software platforms are used for collaborative work, then employees can access specialized tools for different tasks, but it becomes difficult to locate and synthesize relevant content across multiple platforms efficiently

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefunctional capabilityVSAvoidcontent location time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges content from multiple discrete software platforms into a unified entity card interface that aggregates information about entities (people, projects, documents) across different platforms. This allows users to access and synthesize content from various collaboration tools through a single consolidated view, eliminating the need to search each platform separately while maintaining access to specialized functionalities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The entity card interface acts as an intermediary layer between users and the underlying discrete software platforms. It translates and aggregates data from multiple platform sources into a unified representation, enabling efficient content location and synthesis without requiring users to navigate through each individual platform's interface and data structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple platforms store user-generated content, then diverse content types can be created and managed, but synthesizing answers and identifying related entities becomes increasingly difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent diversityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the complex multi-platform content ecosystem into standardized entity cards that represent specific entities (people, projects, documents) with consistent attributes and relationships. Each entity card consolidates information from multiple platforms into a structured format, making it easier to identify related entities and synthesize answers without being overwhelmed by the underlying system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The entity card interface provides a universal mechanism for representing and accessing diverse content types from multiple platforms. A single entity card can contain information about people, projects, documents, and other entities, along with their relationships and associated content, enabling the system to handle content diversity through a unified multi-functional interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Productivity

If traditional search methods are used across platforms, then basic content retrieval is possible, but accurate and efficient synthesis of relevant information in response to queries is difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation retrieval efficiencyVSAvoidanswer accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-aggregating and structuring content into entity cards with defined attributes, relationships, and associated metadata before queries are submitted. This pre-organization of information into standardized formats enables faster and more accurate retrieval and synthesis of relevant content in response to user queries, as the data is already prepared and linked appropriately.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The entity card interface provides feedback mechanisms that help users refine and improve their queries based on the structured information available. By presenting organized entity data with clear relationships and associations, the system enables users to iteratively improve query accuracy and obtain more precise synthesized answers across multiple platforms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20260004244A1Content collaboration platform with an entity card interface and cross-product topic-based data structures
Publication Date: 2026.01.01 ATLASSIAN PTY LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods for generating and displaying content for an entity card interface of a collaboration platform. The entity card interface may be displayed in response to a natural language input or inquiry of a search interface or the entity card interface may also be displayed in response to a user selection of text or a designated object within user-generated content of an editor. The systems and methods described use a network architecture that includes a prompt generation service and a set of one or more purpose-configured large language model instances (LLMs) and/or other trained classifiers or natural language processors used to provide generative responses for content collaboration platforms.