Search Result Page Semantic Object Filtering

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current search engines fail to effectively analyze user behavior and provide accessible semantic data on search results pages, missing opportunities to enhance user interaction with semantic data and applications within search results.

Innovation Solution

The system generates search results by determining pivot data points and semantic objects related to user queries, allowing for refinement and presentation of relevant content, applications, and interactive controls on search results pages, enabling users to toggle between refined search results and query-triggered applications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If search engines return comprehensive search results, then the quantity of information provided increases, but the accessibility and usability of semantic data decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequantity of search resultsVSAvoidaccessibility of semantic data
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments semantic data from comprehensive search results and presents it in structured, easily accessible formats such as structured snippets, knowledge graphs, and hierarchical listings. This allows the system to maintain comprehensive search result coverage while improving semantic data accessibility through organized presentation layers that separate raw data from processed information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces intermediary processing layers including semantic analysis modules, data extraction systems, and presentation formatting components that act as mediators between the comprehensive search results and the user interface. These intermediaries transform raw search data into accessible semantic representations without losing the comprehensiveness of the original results.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If search engines provide detailed semantic data extraction, then the relevance of search results improves, but the complexity of the search system increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverelevance of search resultsVSAvoidcomplexity of search system
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary semantic analysis and data extraction during the indexing and crawling phases, before actual search queries are processed. By pre-processing and structuring semantic data in advance, the system achieves high relevance in search results without adding complexity to the real-time query processing stage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent enables semantic data extraction and organization to occur automatically through self-service mechanisms where the system autonomously identifies, extracts, and structures semantic information from search results without requiring manual intervention or complex real-time processing for each query.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Adaptability or versatility

If interactive controls and applications are added to search results pages, then user interaction capability improves, but the page complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interaction capabilityVSAvoidsearch results page complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements universal interactive controls and application frameworks that can be applied across different search result types and contexts. By creating multi-functional components that serve multiple purposes (e.g., filters that work across different result types, standardized interaction patterns), the system improves user interaction capability without proportionally increasing page complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces dynamic, on-demand interactive elements that are rendered and activated based on user behavior and context. Interactive controls are dynamically added or removed from search results pages based on relevance, user preferences, and query context, allowing the page complexity to adapt rather than statically increase.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS8386454B2Systems and methods for providing advanced search result page content
Publication Date: 2013.02.26 R2 SOLUTIONS LLC
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AI summary

The present invention provides a method and system for generating search results including receiving a search request and accessing a corpus of data relating to web content to determine relevant content. The method and system includes determining at least one semantic object in the search results set and generating an object filter on the basis of the at least one semantic object. The method and system further includes generating a search result output display for the presentation of at least a portion of the search result set and active data links for one or more of the semantic objects and toggling the search result output display to present at least a portion of a subset of the search results set in response to selection of a given active data link, the subset including content having semantic object associated therewith.