Real-Time Shared Web Browsing via Combined Search Views
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current social networking platforms lack the ability to share real-time web browsing activities among users, preventing users from seeing what web pages their friends are concurrently browsing outside of the social networking application.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that detect social messaging interactions between users and capture separate web search results, providing a combined live search results view that allows users to navigate to the same web pages their friends are viewing, with features like content summaries and temporal animations to enhance user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If separate web search results are provided to each social network contact, then search result accuracy for individual queries is improved, but information sharing efficiency among contacts deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges separate web search results from multiple social network contacts into a unified combined view. The system captures search results from each contact's device and consolidates them into a single interface that displays all results together, enabling information sharing while preserving the individual search accuracy of each contact.
2Productivity
If real-time web browsing activities are shared among users, then navigation efficiency is improved, but system complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary that coordinates between multiple user devices. The server receives search results from each contact's device, manages the consolidation process, and distributes the combined results back to users. This intermediary approach enables real-time browsing sharing while centralizing the complexity management on the server side.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a multi-functional platform that simultaneously performs individual web searching, real-time result sharing, combined view generation, and navigation coordination. The social networking system serves multiple purposes: maintaining social connections, enabling individual searches, and facilitating collaborative browsing experiences.
3Loss of information
If combined live search results view is provided to all contacts, then information exchange is improved, but data processing load deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary actions by capturing and storing search results from each contact's device as they are generated during individual searches. Rather than processing all results in real-time when combining, the system pre-captures the results data, making it readily available for efficient consolidation and distribution to the combined view.
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AI summary
A determination is made that each of at least two social network contacts involved in a social messaging interaction initiate a separate web search associated with the social messaging interaction. A separate set of web search results returned to each of the at least two social network contacts is captured in association with each initiated separate web search. A combined live search results view that includes each captured separate set of web search results is provided to each of the at least two social network contacts. The combined live search results view provides navigation to web content returned to other social network contacts.