Search Query Instant Answer Presentation via User Data Extraction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current internet search engines do not efficiently provide user-submitted data as direct responses to search queries, requiring users to navigate through multiple documents and traditional search results, lacking prominent presentation of relevant information.

Innovation Solution

A method utilizing user-submitted data modules, including a data module, feed-mapping module, display-mapping module, and query-matching module, to automatically identify and present relevant responses to search queries, even for unregistered requesters, by packaging and communicating condensed data files to search-query servers for timely and resource-efficient presentation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If traditional search engines are used to provide search results, then comprehensive search capabilities are maintained, but users must navigate through multiple documents and traditional search results, losing time and efficiency

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetime required to find relevant informationVSAvoidnavigation requirements through multiple documents

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the essential answer from multiple search documents and presents it directly as a prominent featured snippet at the top of search results. This allows users to obtain the core information immediately without navigating through multiple documents, directly addressing the time loss and navigation complexity issues.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary processing of search documents to identify and extract key information before the user even views the results. By pre-processing and structuring the data, the system prepares the answer in advance, enabling immediate presentation without requiring user navigation through multiple pages.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If user-submitted data is automatically referenced and presented as direct responses, then efficiency and direct information presentation are improved, but the system complexity and data validation requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveefficiency of providing relevant informationVSAvoidsystem complexity for handling user-submitted data

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary processing layer that receives user-submitted data, validates it against structured schemas, and transforms it into a standardized format. This intermediary layer handles the complexity of data validation and processing, allowing the system to efficiently present user-submitted information without exposing this complexity to the end user.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameters of user-submitted data by validating and transforming them into standardized formats with specific schemas. This parameter transformation ensures that diverse user inputs are converted into a consistent, processable format, enabling efficient handling while maintaining system complexity within manageable bounds.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Loss of information

If user-submitted responses are prominently displayed, then direct information access is enhanced, but ensuring data validity and proper formatting becomes more difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess to relevant informationVSAvoiddata validation and formatting requirements

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where user-submitted data is validated against predefined schemas and standards. The system provides feedback on data quality and formatting requirements, allowing for automatic rejection or correction of invalid entries. This ensures that only properly formatted and validated information is prominently displayed, maintaining information quality while enabling direct access.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

4Loss of energy

If condensed data files are packaged and communicated to search-query servers, then resource efficiency and timely presentation are improved, but the data packaging and communication infrastructure complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveresource efficiency in data processingVSAvoiddata packaging and communication infrastructure

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of energyVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments user-submitted data into structured, modular components that can be independently validated, processed, and transmitted. This segmentation allows for efficient packaging of data into condensed files that can be communicated to search-query servers with minimal overhead, reducing resource consumption while managing infrastructure complexity through modular design.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS8001101B2Presenting instant answers to internet queries

Publication Date: 2011.08.16 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC

AI summary

Methods are described for utilizing user-submitted data to provide a response to a query request. User-submitted data are received and referenced upon receiving a query request from an unregistered requester, a potential response is automatically identified from the user-submitted data, the potential response is extracted, and presented in response to the query request.