Hierarchical Panel Search Interface for Incremental Property Queries
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional search techniques for property listings are inefficient, requiring multiple keyword inputs and web page transitions, leading to suboptimal user experiences and increased computational resource usage, as they are not well-suited to handle the complexity of modern data analysis and user demands.
Innovation Solution
An incremental panel-based search interface that allows users to input characters incrementally, generating and presenting panel objects and sub-objects related to the input, enabling typeahead functionality and reducing the need for page loads by displaying multiple hierarchical levels of data simultaneously, using machine learning to predict relevant search results and incorporating third-party data APIs for additional information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If conventional search techniques require multiple keyword inputs and web page transitions, then search completeness may be improved, but user experience and search efficiency deteriorate due to numerous page loads and transitions
Solution Approach 1:
The search interface is segmented into multiple hierarchical panels that can be displayed simultaneously on a single page. Each panel represents a different level of search refinement (e.g., geographic region, property type, amenities), allowing users to explore multiple search dimensions without navigating to separate pages. This segmentation maintains search completeness while eliminating the need for sequential page transitions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a sequential, linear search process (multiple page loads) to a parallel, multi-dimensional search interface. By displaying hierarchical panels in a spatial arrangement on a single page, the system adds a dimensional aspect to search exploration, allowing users to simultaneously access multiple search criteria and results without temporal delays associated with page transitions.
2Adaptability or versatility
If conventional search techniques use multiple web page transitions, then detailed filtering options may be provided, but computational resource usage increases due to repeated page loads
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple filtering options and search results that would traditionally require separate web pages are merged into a single integrated page layout. Hierarchical panels containing different filtering criteria and result sets are combined in one view, eliminating redundant page loads and the computational overhead of repeated HTML rendering, JavaScript initialization, and network transactions while maintaining full filtering versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-loading and organizing search data into hierarchical panel structures before user interaction. Filter options and corresponding results are prepared and arranged in advance within the single-page interface, reducing the need for subsequent computational processing and data retrieval operations that would occur with sequential page transitions.
3Device complexity
If conventional search interfaces require sequential page transitions, then information organization may be simplified, but information availability deteriorates as prior page information is obscured
Solution Approach 1:
The search interface employs a nested panel structure where hierarchical levels of information are contained within one another on the same page. Outer panels may contain broader search results while inner panels provide detailed filtering options and specific property information. This nesting allows users to access multiple levels of information simultaneously without transitioning between pages, preserving context and preventing information loss while maintaining organized structure.
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AI summary
Various embodiments relate generally to a system, a device and a method for providing a panel-based search interface as a function of incremental entry of user data, such as text representing a destination. Data representing user input is received at a search interface presented by a listing management system. One or more panel objects are determined based on the user input. Data representing one or more interests associated with the user input is retrieved. The one or more panel objects and the data representing the one or more interests are rendered within the search interface. Responsive to the received user input, the search interface comprising the rendered one or more panel objects and the data representing the one or more interests is provided.