Navigation Filter Generation from Target Resource Content

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing content delivery systems fail to effectively summarize and present the content of target resources, such as landing pages, due to third-party content items like advertisements that poorly represent the available products or services, leading to user dissatisfaction.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for generating navigation filters by normalizing textual data entries, identifying occurrences in electronic resources, determining paths, and constructing queries to associate potential navigation filter items with headings, thereby summarizing the content of target resources within content items.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If third-party content items (e.g., advertisements) are used to direct users to target resources, then users can access additional content and services, but the content items fail to effectively summarize the target resource content, leading to user dissatisfaction

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesummary of target resource contentVSAvoidsystem complexity for generating navigation filters

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically generating navigation filters from target resource content before users arrive. The server extracts headings and items from the target resource, organizes them into a structured navigation filter, and prepares it in advance. When users click on third-party content items, the pre-generated navigation filter is immediately displayed, providing a summary of available content without requiring real-time processing or complex user interactions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If navigation filters are generated by normalizing and processing textual data from target resources, then content summary quality improves, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccuracy of content summaryVSAvoidprocessing time for generating navigation filters

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically generating navigation filters from target resource content before users arrive. The server extracts headings and items from the target resource, organizes them into a structured navigation filter, and prepares it in advance. When users click on third-party content items, the pre-generated navigation filter is immediately displayed, providing a summary of available content without requiring real-time processing or complex user interactions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system extracts only the essential elements needed for summarization from the target resource. It identifies and extracts headings and items from the target resource content, excluding unnecessary or redundant information. This selective extraction process reduces processing complexity while maintaining the quality of the content summary, as the system focuses on pulling out only the most relevant structural elements (headings and items) that effectively represent the target resource content.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Loss of information

If third-party content items directly link to target resources with hundreds of products or services, then users can access comprehensive content, but users cannot preview or understand the available content before clicking

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevisibility of target resource contentVSAvoiduser ability to preview content

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically generating navigation filters from target resource content before users arrive. The server extracts headings and items from the target resource, organizes them into a structured navigation filter, and prepares it in advance. When users click on third-party content items, the pre-generated navigation filter is immediately displayed, providing a summary of available content without requiring real-time processing or complex user interactions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10354292B1Systems and methods for generating navigation filters

Publication Date: 2019.07.16 GOOGLE LLC

AI summary

Systems and methods for generating navigation filters are provided. A target resource is parsed and occurrences of data entries representing archetypal headings and/or archetypal items for a navigation filter are identified in the content of the target resource. A path to each of the identified occurrences is determined and used to construct a query for additional navigation filter headings and/or navigation filter items that have the same path as an identified occurrence. Identified occurrences of archetypal data entries in the target resource and the additional content having the same path as an identified occurrence are used as potential navigation filter headings and/or potential navigation filter items. Navigation filters are generated by associating one or more of the potential navigation filter items with one of the potential navigation filter headings.