Search Result Highlighting for Targeted Game Identification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Online gaming platforms face challenges in providing clear and relevant search results for users seeking specific games, as existing search engines often return numerous results that confuse users, including popular games and their imitations, leading to frustration and inefficient search processes.
Innovation Solution
A method that determines whether a search query is directed to a specific game by analyzing characteristics such as session data and canonical titles, and highlights the targeted game in search results to reduce user confusion and promote relevant game discovery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If a search engine returns many search results based on popularity and downloads, then the quantity of search results is increased, but user confusion and frustration increase due to difficulty in finding the targeted game
Solution Approach 1:
The search results are segmented into different visual groups: highlighted results for narrowly searched games and non-highlighted results for other games. This segmentation allows users to quickly identify the targeted game among many results without confusion, resolving the contradiction between providing comprehensive results and enabling easy target identification.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies visual highlighting (color changes) to differentiate the targeted game from other search results. By changing the visual appearance of the highlighted result through borders, background colors, or other visual indicators, users can immediately identify the relevant game among numerous results, solving the problem of user confusion while maintaining comprehensive search results.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the search engine provides comprehensive search results including popular games and imitations, then the coverage of search results is improved, but user frustration increases due to inability to distinguish the targeted game
Solution Approach 1:
The search results are segmented into highlighted and non-highlighted portions based on whether they match the narrowly searched game. This segmentation maintains comprehensive coverage of relevant games while clearly distinguishing the targeted game, allowing users to see all relevant results without frustration from inability to identify the correct one.
Solution Approach 2:
The highlighting mechanism acts as an intermediary visual indicator that mediates between comprehensive search results and user identification needs. The visual highlight serves as a mediator that guides user attention to the targeted game while preserving the completeness of search results for adaptability.
3Loss of information
If the system processes and displays all search results equally, then the completeness of information is maintained, but computational resources are wasted on irrelevant searches and game sessions
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts the targeted game from the set of search results and applies highlighting only to that specific result. This extraction approach maintains completeness of information by keeping all results visible while reducing computational waste by treating the highlighted result differently, potentially reducing processing for irrelevant game sessions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies different visual quality (highlighting) to different portions of the search results based on their relevance. The targeted game receives enhanced visual treatment while other results maintain standard appearance, allowing the system to maintain information completeness while optimizing resource allocation by focusing attention and potentially processing resources on the most relevant result.
Data Source
AI summary
Prominent display of a targeted game in search results from a search within an online gaming platform. In some implementations, a server receives a search query from a device. The search query is executed against a data store of available games to obtain search results indicating a set of games. Based on one or more characteristics of the set of games, it is determined whether the search query is directed to a narrow search for a particular game in the set of games. In response to determining such a narrow search, the particular game is designated with a highlight indication, and the search results and highlight indication are transmitted to the device, causing display of a user interface that includes at least a portion of the search results. The highlight indication causes the device to display an identifier of the particular game as highlighted relative to other search results.