Reading Interface Widget for AI-Based News Perspective Comparison

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing news aggregators require users to invest significant time and effort to understand news coverage diversity across multiple sources, and existing methods fail to effectively compare and contrast different perspectives in news articles.

Innovation Solution

A reading and comprehension assistance tool that generates a reading interface widget displaying discord questions and answers based on diverse data sources, allowing users to easily compare perspectives using a discord question server and neural network-based generation model.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If users manually browse multiple news sources to compare perspectives, then they can understand news coverage diversity, but it requires significant time and effort investment

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenews coverage diversity understandingVSAvoidtime and effort to browse

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary system (reading interface widget with AI processing) that mediates between multiple news sources and the user. This intermediary automatically retrieves, analyzes, and synthesizes perspectives from multiple sources, presenting them in a structured comparison format without requiring the user to manually browse each source.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-fetching and pre-processing news articles from multiple sources before the user needs to compare them. The AI model pre-analyzes the content and generates perspective comparisons in advance, so when the user requests comparison, the work is already done and immediately presented.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Loss of information

If existing news aggregators present multiple sources, then diversity is provided, but they fail to effectively compare and contrast different perspectives

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveperspective comparisonVSAvoideffectiveness of comparison

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of information presentation from raw, unprocessed news articles to AI-generated perspective comparisons. By transforming the data through natural language processing and generating structured comparisons with clear identification of different viewpoints, the system makes perspective comparison effective and easy to operate.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of operation

If a reading interface widget generates discord questions and answers based on multiple sources, then perspective comparison is enabled, but computing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveperspective comparison capabilityVSAvoidcomputing requirements on user device

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces the mechanical approach of local AI processing on user devices with a cloud-based AI processing model. The reading interface widget communicates with remote servers that perform the computationally intensive tasks of generating discord questions and analyzing perspectives, substituting local computational mechanics with remote cloud-based processing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

4Loss of information

If users access news through multiple channels, then diversity of sources is achieved, but transparency and bias identification become difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesource diversityVSAvoidbias detection and transparency

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12499322B2Systems and methods for a reading and comprehension assistance tool

Publication Date: 2025.12.16 SALESFORCE INC

AI summary

Embodiments described herein provide system of a neural network based news reading tool. The system includes a communication interface receiving one or more text passages from data sources. The system also includes a memory storing a discord question neural model that generates a discord question according to the text passages. The system further includes processors executing processor-executable instructions to perform operations that include determining, by the discord question neural model, respective locations within the one or more text passages for inserting the discord question; receiving, via the communication interface from a client component, an indication that a user device is accessing a first text passage from a first data source; and sending, via the communication interface, the discord question, and a first location corresponding to the first text passage to the user device thereby causing the client component to generate and display a reading interface widget.