Fixed-Format Link Code System for Direct Web Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information-link systems face challenges in allowing users to easily and directly access desired information due to deep hierarchical website structures and cumbersome URL input requirements, with previous solutions like simplified network addresses and keyword search systems having limitations in error detection and user convenience.
Innovation Solution
An information-link system that issues link codes with a predetermined fixed format, allowing users to associate and update links with URLs or data file locations, and enables direct access through various input methods such as image, voice, or action recognition, facilitating easy recognition and extraction of link codes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a simplified network address is assigned to a URL, then user input effort is reduced, but error detection capability deteriorates because the simplified address does not have a fixed format
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the simplified network address from an arbitrary format to one with specific parameter constraints: it must contain exactly six alphanumeric characters, the first being a letter. This parameter-based format provides both user convenience and automated error detection through format validation, resolving the contradiction between ease of input and error detection capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary conversion process between the simplified address and the actual URL. The information link device receives the simplified address, validates its format, converts it to the corresponding full URL, and retrieves the information. This intermediary layer enables both simple user input and robust error detection through format validation before conversion.
2Ease of operation
If keyword search systems are used to access information, then URL input complexity is reduced, but direct access capability deteriorates because multiple webpages are provided and users cannot easily reach the most-appropriate webpage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a simplified copy or representation of the URL structure - the six-character alphanumeric code that maps to the full URL. Instead of requiring users to navigate through search results or input complex URLs, the system uses this compact coded representation that directly identifies the target webpage, eliminating the time loss associated with searching and multiple page navigations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If long URLs are used for webpages located deeper in the website hierarchy, then information can be accessed, but user input effort and error rate increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential identifying information from the long URL and represents it in a condensed six-character code. This extracted code retains the ability to uniquely identify any webpage in the hierarchy while removing the cumbersome length and complexity of the full URL, thereby reducing user input effort without sacrificing information access capability.
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AI summary
An information-link system is provided that allows an information provider to associate a predetermined link code with information from the provider, and that allows a user to directly access the information. The system includes an information-link device, an information-providing terminal, and a user terminal, each connected to each other via a network, and wherein the information-link device includes a link-code-management part, and a link-information-extraction part, the link-code-management part issues link codes in response to an information provider request, with each of the link codes having a predetermined fixed format, associates each of the link codes with a URL or a file storage location, and manages the associated link code and the URL or the storage location, and the link-information-extraction part extracts the URL or the location of the data file that has been associated with the link code, based on the link code sent from the user terminal.