Online Content Search Using Time, Money, and Life-Value Matching

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing search engines rely on linguistic terms matching, which is inherently limited and resource-intensive, failing to provide accurate and relevant search results for diverse consumable items, requiring high linguistic proficiency and being restricted to specific types of items.

Innovation Solution

A value-based search engine that utilizes quantified benefit values, such as time, monetary, and life improvement values, to match user-defined parameters, enabling accurate and resource-efficient searching and recommending of various consumable items, including text, visual, and audio content, products, and services, through a user-friendly graphical interface.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If linguistic terms matching is used for searching, then search functionality is provided, but accuracy and relevance of search results deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesearch result accuracyVSAvoidsearch result relevance

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the search parameters from linguistic terms to quantified benefit values (time, money, life improvement). This allows for more precise matching between user needs and consumable items by using numerical parameters that directly represent value, thereby improving both accuracy and relevance of search results.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the linguistic matching mechanism with a quantified value matching mechanism. Instead of comparing text strings and linguistic patterns, the system compares numerical benefit values, which provides more reliable and accurate matching between user requirements and item characteristics.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Adaptability or versatility

If linguistic terms matching is used for searching, then search coverage is provided, but resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesearch coverageVSAvoidresource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the essential value characteristics from consumable items and represents them as quantified benefit values. This extraction process creates a simplified representation that maintains search coverage while significantly reducing the computational resources needed for matching, as numerical comparison is much more efficient than linguistic analysis.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Adaptability or versatility

If linguistic proficiency is required for searching, then specific types of items can be searched, but ease of operation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveitem type coverageVSAvoiduser interaction simplicity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent enables users to perform searches without requiring linguistic proficiency. The system presents benefit parameters (time, money, life improvement) that users can directly evaluate and compare based on their own needs, eliminating the need for complex query formulation and making the search process intuitive and accessible to all users.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

4Ease of operation

If search engines are restricted to specific types of items, then simplicity is maintained, but adaptability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesystem simplicityVSAvoiditem type coverage

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a universal search framework based on quantified benefit values that can be applied to any type of consumable item. By using time, money, and life improvement as common parameters across all item types, the system maintains simplicity in the search mechanism while dramatically expanding adaptability to cover diverse items including content, products, and services.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12361078B2Value-based online content search engine

Publication Date: 2025.07.15 TIME ECONOMY LTD

AI summary

A method of searching and recommending online consumable items based on quantified benefit value, comprising receiving one or more benefit parameters defined by one or more users with respect to one or more domains of interest, searching for a plurality of consumable items relating to the interest domain(s) which are published in one or more online resources, analyzing a benefit label associated with each consumable items which is indicative of one or more quantified benefit values of the respective consumable item expressed in one or more metrics—time value, monetary value, and/or life improvement value, selecting one or more of the consumable items based on a correspondence between their quantified benefit values and the benefit parameter(s), and instructing one or more client devices used by the one or more users to present the selected consumable item(s) for consumption by the one or more users.