Mobile Search Platform Ordering Merchants by Location
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile devices face difficulties in using search technologies designed for conventional online use due to limitations in displaying content, entering queries, and navigating, and existing search engines are not optimized for mobile communication facilities, leading to suboptimal search results.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that receive a product selection from a mobile communication facility, identify relevant merchants, and present an ordered list of merchants based on information related to the facility, such as user characteristics, history, and location, using a wireless search platform that integrates multiple data sources and facilitates voice entry, barcode scanning, and image recognition.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional online search technologies are used on mobile devices, then search functionality is provided, but the search results are suboptimal due to device limitations in displaying content, entering queries, and navigating
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the parameters of search technology by developing a mobile-optimized search engine that adapts to mobile device constraints. This includes modifying query input methods (voice recognition, barcode scanning), changing display parameters (condensed mobile-friendly results), and adjusting navigation parameters (simplified result presentation), thereby resolving the contradiction between maintaining search quality and accommodating device operational limitations
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary mobile search engine that bridges the gap between conventional online search technologies and mobile device constraints. This intermediary layer translates user intents from various mobile input methods into effective search queries and presents results in mobile-optimized formats, thereby improving search result quality while accounting for device operational limitations
2Reliability
If mobile-optimized search capabilities are developed, then search experience is improved, but system complexity increases due to integration of multiple data sources and functions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple data sources (user characteristics, location data, purchase history, merchant information) and functions (voice recognition, barcode scanning, image recognition, search, and result presentation) into a unified mobile search system. This consolidation improves search experience quality by providing comprehensive, personalized results while managing system complexity through integrated architecture that coordinates all components working together
3Loss of information
If personalized search results based on user characteristics are provided, then result relevance is improved, but information processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-processing and storing user characteristics, location data, and purchase history in accessible formats before search queries are executed. This allows the mobile search engine to quickly retrieve and apply relevant user information during search operations, thereby improving result relevance while minimizing real-time data processing energy requirements on the mobile device
Data Source
AI summary
Improved capabilities are disclosed for receiving a product selection from a mobile communication facility, identifying merchants that sell such product and products associated with the product selection, receiving information relating to the mobile communication facility and presenting an ordered list of merchants selling the product. In embodiments, based at least part on the information relating to the mobile communication facility, the list of merchants may be ordered. These and other capabilities are employed to provide systems and methods for comparison shopping that are adapted for mobile comparison shopping.