Information Processing Device Automatic Link Addition

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional methods require manual effort to add links to specific words in webpages, making it labor-intensive and inefficient, especially when dealing with numerous links or changing product specifications.

Innovation Solution

An information processing device that detects keywords in text and automatically adds links to relevant pages, including detail pages and feature-based lists, reducing the workload and ensuring links are up-to-date.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual methods are used to add links to webpages, then link accuracy can be ensured, but the process becomes labor-intensive and inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelink addition efficiencyVSAvoidmanual operation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically detects keywords in webpage text and adds relevant links without requiring manual intervention. The processor autonomously identifies subjects, searches for related pages, and inserts hyperlinks, allowing the webpage to 'serve itself' with updated links.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces manual mechanical operations (clicking, typing, searching) with an automated information processing system. The processor executes algorithms to detect keywords, identify related subjects, and generate links, substituting human labor with computational processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Reliability

If links are added manually to keep them up-to-date with changing product specifications, then link relevance is maintained, but the workload increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelink relevanceVSAvoidtime for maintaining links
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables continuous automatic updating of links whenever webpage content changes. Instead of periodic manual updates, the processor continuously monitors for subject changes and adds or updates links in real-time, ensuring ongoing relevance without interruption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Solution Approach 2:

The system establishes a feedback loop where changes in product specifications or webpage content automatically trigger link updates. The processor detects subject changes, retrieves updated information, and adjusts links accordingly, creating a self-correcting system that maintains accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Productivity

If automated link addition is implemented, then productivity increases, but the complexity of the system increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomated link addition speedVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The processor performs multiple functions within a single integrated system: keyword detection, subject identification, page search, and link insertion. This multi-functional approach consolidates what could be separate complex systems into one unified device, managing complexity through functional integration.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses an intermediary database or knowledge base to store subject information and relationships. This intermediary layer simplifies the connection between keyword detection and link generation, acting as a buffer that manages complexity by pre-organizing data structures and relationships.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20240320413A1Information processing device, link adding method, and recording medium
Publication Date: 2024.09.26 CASIO COMPUTER CO LTD
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AI summary

An information processing device includes a memory storing a program, and a controller that executes the program. The controller detects, from within text included in a display request page, for which displaying is requested from a terminal, a keyword associated with a subject to be displayed; and adds, to the keyword within the text, a link to a page related to the subject to be displayed identified by the keyword.