Graphical Search Space for Interactive Parameter Weighting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current search algorithms face issues such as search output discrepancies, bias, and a mismatch between user intentions and search interface functionality due to inconsistent data curation and parameter weighting, leading to user dissatisfaction and limited diversity in search results.
Innovation Solution
A graphical search interface that allows users to interactively adjust search parameter weightings in a multi-dimensional space, enabling intuitive manipulation of search parameters and real-time updating of results, thereby aligning search outputs with user preferences and goals.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional search algorithms use fixed parameter weightings, then search processing is simple and fast, but search output discrepancies and bias occur due to inability to adapt to user intentions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the traditional one-dimensional search parameter interface into a multi-dimensional graphical search space where parameters are represented as vectors with both magnitude and direction. This dimensional expansion allows users to simultaneously adjust multiple parameters and their relationships, resolving the contradiction by providing adaptive search capabilities without overwhelming interface complexity through intuitive visual manipulation.
Solution Approach 2:
The search interface transitions from static fixed weightings to dynamic adjustable parameters. Users can interactively modify parameter weightings and relationships in real-time within the graphical search space, allowing the system to adapt to changing user intentions while maintaining a relatively simple visual interface compared to traditional complex parameter settings.
2Productivity
If search algorithms process multiple data sets simultaneously, then search exhaustiveness increases, but search processing time and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-processes and organizes data into structured data sets with defined relationships before user queries. The graphical search space is pre-configured with parameter vectors and their relationships, allowing the system to quickly evaluate multiple data sets simultaneously without extensive real-time processing, thus achieving exhaustiveness while minimizing processing time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent divides the search process into separate data sets that can be independently processed and then integrated. Each data set can be searched independently using optimized algorithms, and results are combined through the graphical search space framework. This segmentation allows parallel processing of multiple data sets, increasing exhaustiveness while reducing overall processing time compared to sequential searching.
3Adaptability or versatility
If search interface provides detailed parameter control, then user control over search results improves, but ease of operation decreases due to complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The graphical search space acts as an intermediary between the user and the complex search parameters. Instead of directly manipulating numerous individual parameters, users interact with visual representations (vectors, nodes, connections) that mediate the control process. This intermediary layer simplifies the interface while maintaining detailed control capability, as users can adjust parameter relationships through intuitive visual operations rather than complex numerical settings.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates visual copies or representations of abstract search parameters in the graphical interface. Parameters are represented as vectors, nodes, or other visual elements that mirror their functional properties but are easier to manipulate visually. This copying approach allows users to control detailed search parameters through simple visual interactions rather than complex textual or numerical inputs, improving ease of operation while maintaining adaptability.
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AI summary
A computer-implemented method is provided for enabling Internet users to interact with a graphical search interface by: generating a multi-dimensional search space having a plurality of vertices, based on the initial and related search parameters, wherein each vertex is populated with and represents one of the initial or related search parameters; generating a matrix of hyperlinks within the multi-dimensional search space, each hyperlink having coordinates within the search space defining a relevance of the hyperlink to each of the initial and related search parameters; displaying a graphical interface projecting the multi-dimensional search space, along with user elements by which the user may adjust a relative weight of one or more of the initial and related search parameters by interacting with one or more of the hyperlinks; and displaying a plurality of search results automatically updated in real time based on the user-adjusted weights of the initial and related search parameters.