Keyword Service for Smart Navigation Provisioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional internet navigation methods, such as search engines, often return irrelevant results when users seek specific network resources, as they lack control over search engine displays and may not direct users to the exact desired webpage.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for providing smart navigation services that allow content providers to associate keywords with specific network locators, enabling direct navigation to desired network resources without entering exact domain names or URLs, using a keyword management server to manage keyword-URL pairs and redirect users to content provider-designated webpages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If search engines are used for navigation, then users can search for network resources, but the results are often irrelevant and lack control over display
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a keyword service as an intermediary between users and network resources. This service receives keyword-based navigation requests, resolves them to specific network locators through a structured database, and returns precise results. The intermediary eliminates the need for users to directly interact with uncontrolled search engines while maintaining ease of keyword-based operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the navigation parameter from unstructured search queries to structured keyword-resolution pairs. By transforming user input into a standardized format that queries a pre-organized database of keywords and network locators, the system achieves both precision in navigation and simplicity in operation.
2Measurement precision
If exact domain names or URLs are required for navigation, then direct access is achieved, but user convenience is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a simplified copy or representation of the complex URL structure. Instead of requiring users to input full domain names and URLs, the system uses keyword-based shortcuts that map to these detailed locators. This copying approach maintains precise resource identification while dramatically simplifying user input requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The navigation process is segmented into two distinct phases: (1) user input of simple keywords, and (2) system-side resolution of keywords to full network locators. This segmentation allows the complexity of URL management to be hidden from users while maintaining accurate resource access.
3Ease of operation
If keyword services are implemented, then direct navigation to specific webpages is enabled, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The keyword service is designed to be self-configuring through automated processes. Content providers can register their own keywords and network locators without requiring complex manual configuration of the entire system. The service automatically manages the keyword-resolution database, reducing the operational complexity despite the enhanced functionality.
4Measurement precision
If content providers control navigation displays, then relevance is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Content providers perform preliminary action by pre-registering their desired keywords and associated network locators in the keyword service database. This advance configuration allows the system to automatically resolve keywords to relevant resources without requiring complex real-time control mechanisms. The relevance control is established beforehand, simplifying the operational complexity.
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AI summary
Techniques for provisioning a smart navigation service are presented. The provisioning can be performed by a name owner, by the smart navigation service itself, or by a third-party keyword service. The provisioned information can include an entity name, a keyword, and possibly other data correlated to at least one network locator. The navigation service electronically stores in navigation service persistent memory a rule correlating the entity name, the keyword, and, if used, the other data, to the at least one network locator, such that when the navigation service receives, from a client computer communicatively coupled to the navigation service, command data that includes the entity name, the keyword, and possibly other data, the navigation service responds to the client computer with the at least one network locator.