Tablet Web Visual Browsing Non-Textual Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of tablet devices face inconvenience when browsing websites due to the lack of a real keyboard, making it difficult to navigate and find information efficiently using text-based inputs.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system that allows non-textual navigation through touchscreen inputs such as swipes and taps, enabling users to select categories and subcategories visually, reducing the need for virtual keyboards and external input devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If text-based inputs and virtual keyboards are used for navigation on tablet devices, then search functionality is maintained, but user convenience and ease of operation deteriorate due to the lack of real keyboard and small touchscreen interface
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical keyboard input with touchscreen-based visual navigation. Users interact with visual category representations and item thumbnails directly on the touchscreen, eliminating the need for virtual keyboards and text-based search inputs. This substitution fundamentally changes the input paradigm from text-entry to direct visual selection.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically presents visual category options and item selections to the user based on their visual input. The tablet device itself provides the navigation interface and processing capabilities, eliminating the need for external input devices or complex virtual keyboard interactions. The visual browsing system serves the user's information needs directly through visual exploration.
2Ease of operation
If visual browsing with touchscreen inputs is implemented, then ease of operation and user convenience improve, but computing resource usage including processor cycles, memory, and power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system loads and displays visual representations of categories and items on-demand as users navigate through the visual browsing interface. Rather than pre-loading all possible content, the system retrieves and renders visual elements progressively based on user interaction, reducing overall memory and processing requirements while maintaining ease of navigation.
3Speed
If visual category selections and item thumbnails are displayed, then navigation speed and information access improve, but network traffic and data transmission requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts essential visual information (category representations and item thumbnails) from the full web content and presents only these extracted visual elements for navigation. This extraction approach allows users to browse and select categories and items using minimal visual data, reducing network traffic requirements while maintaining fast navigation speed. Full content is loaded only when specifically selected by the user.
Data Source
AI summary
In various embodiments, systems and methods for providing tablet web visual browsing is provided. In example embodiments, a landing webpage having a plurality of categories from which a user at a mobile device may begin a non-textual navigation sequence to navigate to an item of interest is provided. A first non-textual input of the non-textual navigation sequence that indicates a selection of a category is received from the mobile device. A plurality of subcategories of the selected category and a search result having a plurality of item selections identified based on the selected category are determined. At least one further non-textual input of the non-textual navigation sequence is received that causes adjustment to a visualization of the plurality of item selections to facilitate non-textual navigation to the item of interest. The adjusted visualization of the plurality of item selections is provided for display on the mobile device.