Objective-Aware GUI for Comprehensive Recurring Searches
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing search engines struggle to provide a comprehensive overview of documents surrounding a particular topic, require users to specify all search terms and parameters, and do not consider the user's objective, leading to time-consuming trial and error searches for relevant information.
Innovation Solution
A system that defines user monitors based on interests and objectives, automatically identifies additional categories and filters, and delivers relevant documents through customizable parameters.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If search engines base search on just words and operators entered by user, then search engine simplicity is maintained, but search completeness deteriorates (many relevant documents overlooked)
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the search process into multiple components: basic keyword search, automatic category identification, relationship detection, and multi-term generation. Each component handles a specific aspect of information retrieval, allowing the system to maintain simplicity while achieving comprehensive search results through coordinated segmentation of functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer between the user's simple keyword input and the final search results. This intermediary automatically identifies categories, detects relationships between entities, and generates additional search terms, acting as a mediator that enhances search completeness without requiring the user to understand or specify these complex processes.
2Measurement precision
If search engines require user to specify all search terms and parameters, then search precision is improved, but user effort and time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary actions automatically before the user needs to specify search parameters. The system pre-identifies categories, pre-detects relationships between entities, and pre-generates related search terms based on the user's initial input. This preliminary processing reduces the user's burden and time investment while maintaining high search precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements self-service mechanisms where the search engine automatically performs tasks that would otherwise require user specification. The system autonomously identifies categories, detects relationships, and generates search terms without user intervention, allowing the user to benefit from high precision searches while investing minimal time and effort.
3Device complexity
If search engines do not consider user objective, then system simplicity is maintained, but search effectiveness deteriorates (time-consuming trial and error)
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by detecting and utilizing the user's objective as a specific local characteristic of the search request. Rather than treating all searches uniformly, the system identifies the user's purpose (e.g., competitive intelligence, market research) and tailors the search process accordingly, generating objective-specific search terms and focusing on relevant categories and relationships.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamics by making the search process adaptive to the user's objective. The system dynamically adjusts search strategies, term generation, and category selection based on the detected objective, allowing the search effectiveness to respond flexibly to different user needs while maintaining a relatively simple underlying system architecture.
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AI summary
Some embodiments provide a method for generating a graphical user interface (GUI) for a research system that identifies documents relevant to several categories. The method receives a user objective and at least one initial category for a recurring search that identifies documents relevant to several categories for presentation to a user. The method provides for display in the GUI several selectable additional categories related to the received initial category for the user objective. The method receives a selection of a set of categories through the GUI. The method provides for display in the GUI an optimized modifiable set of filters for removing specific types of documents that are relevant to the set of categories from the recurring search. The method generates the recurring search for the user based on the received categories and a modified set of filters.