Search Content Segmentation for Navigation Efficiency
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing volume of search content makes it difficult to navigate, review, and understand relevant information, as users struggle to identify the most relevant content amidst a large quantity of search results.
Innovation Solution
A computer system that receives a search query, identifies a restricted group of questions or text snippets relevant to the query, transforms them into multiple sub-groups based on shared associations, and communicates these sub-groups to the user, facilitating navigation and review by ranking and classifying the content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If the quantity of search content increases, then the comprehensiveness of search results improves, but the ease of navigating and reviewing content deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments search content into multiple hierarchical levels: top-level categories, sub-categories, and individual content items. This segmentation organizes the overwhelming quantity of content into manageable groups, allowing users to navigate through structured hierarchies rather than facing a flat list of numerous items, thus resolving the contradiction between content comprehensiveness and navigation ease.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces hierarchical dimensions to the search results presentation, transforming a single-level flat list into a multi-level structured organization. By adding categorical and subcategorical dimensions, the system enables users to browse content through multiple levels of abstraction, making the vast quantity of content more manageable and easier to navigate systematically.
2Quantity of substance
If the size of search content items increases, then the amount of information available improves, but the time required to review content increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments information into hierarchical categories and subcategories, allowing users to review content in organized portions rather than encountering large blocks of unorganized information. This segmentation enables selective review of relevant sections, reducing the time required to process and understand the total amount of information available.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary organization of content into hierarchical structures before the user needs to review it. By pre-categorizing and subcategorizing information, the system prepares the content in an easily navigable format, eliminating the need for users to spend time organizing or searching through unstructured information, thus reducing review time while preserving comprehensive information availability.
3Ease of operation
If search content is organized into hierarchical groups, then the ease of navigation improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal hierarchical grouping mechanism that can organize different types of search content (text, images, videos, documents) into the same categorical structure. This multi-functional approach allows a single system architecture to handle diverse content types through consistent hierarchical organization, improving navigation ease without requiring separate complex systems for each content type, thus managing overall system complexity.
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AI summary
Some embodiments include a system. The system comprises an input device, an output device, one or more processing modules, and one or more non-transitory memory storage modules storing computer instructions. The non-transitory memory storage module(s) are configured to run on the processing module(s) and perform acts of: receiving a search query; and responsive to receiving the search query: identifying a restricted group of questions, the questions of the restricted group of questions being relevant to the search query; transforming the restricted group of questions into a first group of questions and a second group of questions, the questions of the restricted group of questions comprising the questions of the first group of questions and the questions of the second group of questions; and communicating to a user the first group of questions and the second group of questions. Other embodiments of related systems and methods are also provided.