Searchable History of Real-World User Experiences
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current search engines fail to provide users with a searchable history of their real-world experiences, as the retrieved content is often generated by others and not connected to the user's actual experiences.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that captures and transmits media data from mobile devices to a server system for recognition processes, creating a searchable history of user experiences, allowing users to query and retrieve relevant data from their own experiences, including images, audio, and sensor data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If search engines retrieve content from web crawls, then vast knowledge about people, places, and things is provided, but the retrieved content is unconnected to the user's real-world experiences
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the search system into two distinct components: a web crawl component that gathers general knowledge, and a personal experience component that captures user-specific media data. This segmentation allows the system to maintain both the quantity of general information and the quality of personal connection by treating them as separate but complementary data sources.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges web crawl results with personal experience data in the search results presentation. By combining these previously separate information sources, the system delivers both vast knowledge coverage and personal relevance, resolving the contradiction between quantity of information and personal connection.
2Adaptability or versatility
If media data is captured and stored for every user experience, then a personalized searchable history is created, but the system complexity and data storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary between mobile devices and the search system. The server handles the complex tasks of receiving, storing, and processing personal media data, while mobile devices maintain a simpler client-side architecture. This intermediary approach enables personalization without significantly increasing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates simplified copies of media data in the form of metadata and extracted features that can be efficiently stored and searched. Instead of storing and processing complete high-resolution media files, the system uses compressed representations that maintain personalization capabilities while reducing storage and computational complexity.
3Measurement precision
If recognition processes are performed on all captured media data, then accurate matching of experiences is achieved, but the processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary recognition and processing of media data at the time of capture, creating pre-processed features and metadata before the data is stored. This preliminary action ensures that when search queries are executed, the recognition processes work with pre-prepared data, significantly reducing query processing time while maintaining matching accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies recognition processes selectively rather than uniformly to all media data. By performing full recognition only on data that requires it and using simpler matching for other cases, the system achieves accurate matching where needed while reducing overall processing time and computational resource consumption.
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AI summary
A method and apparatus for enabling a searchable history of real-world user experiences is described. The method may include capturing media data by a mobile computing device. The method may also include transmitting the captured media data to a server computer system, the server computer system to perform one or more recognition processes on the captured media data and add the captured media data to a history of real-world experiences of a user of the mobile computing device when the one or more recognition processes find a match. The method may also include transmitting a query of the user to the server computer system to initiate a search of the history or real-world experiences, and receiving results relevant to the query that include data indicative of the media data in the history of real-world experiences.