Link Association for Automatic Content Retrieval

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users find scanning multiple machine-readable codes, such as barcodes or watermarks, to be tedious and battery-draining, especially when accessing related content, as they often require manual scanning of each code.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that utilize a link association device with a processor and storage medium to automatically retrieve related content elements by analyzing past user behaviors and aggregating data across multiple users, allowing content linked to one scanned code to be automatically displayed without needing to scan each individual code, based on geo-location, time, frequency, and demographic parameters.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users manually scan multiple machine-readable codes to access related content, then complete information access is achieved, but user effort and battery consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser effortVSAvoidtime to access content

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically scanning additional codes and retrieving related content in advance, so that when a user scans one code, the associated content is already available or being fetched simultaneously, eliminating the need for sequential manual scanning

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by automatically detecting and scanning related machine-readable codes without user intervention, and autonomously retrieving and displaying the associated content, allowing the system to serve itself in completing the information gathering task

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Loss of information

If users manually scan multiple machine-readable codes to access related content, then complete information access is achieved, but battery consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent completenessVSAvoidbattery consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges multiple scanning operations and content retrieval processes into a single automated workflow triggered by one user scan, combining the functions of detection, scanning, data transmission, and content display into an integrated system response that achieves complete information access through unified energy consumption

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Ease of operation

If the system automatically retrieves related content using link association, then user involvement is reduced, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser involvementVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary layer (the link association device and server infrastructure) that handles the complexity of automated code scanning, content retrieval, and relationship mapping, shielding the user from these complex operations while providing a simple scan-and-view interface

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS10706245B2Link association

Publication Date: 2020.07.07 HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP

AI summary

Examples disclosed herein relate to capturing a first machine-readable link via art image capture device, retrieving a first content element associated with the first machine-readable Sink, determining whether the first content element is related to a second content element associated with a second machine-readable link, and in response to determining that the first content element is related to the second content element associated with a second machine-readable link, retrieving the second content element.