Terminal Voice Search Interface with User Response Handling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing terminal systems face limitations in providing accurate and comprehensive search results due to geographical constraints, limited information providers, and privacy concerns, leading to user dissatisfaction and inefficiencies in information search services.
Innovation Solution
A method for a user interface on a terminal that allows voice-based information search requests, enabling interactive services by transmitting user responses to a server, acquiring location and profile information, and utilizing a user-generated database to extend search capabilities beyond traditional providers, thereby overcoming geographical and provider limitations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a terminal uses a dedicated search service with limited information providers, then the search service can be simple to operate, but the search results become inaccurate and unavailable for certain queries
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple information sources including dedicated search service results, web search results, and user-generated database results into a unified search interface. This merging allows the system to leverage the accuracy of dedicated providers while compensating for their limited coverage through alternative sources.
Solution Approach 2:
The terminal acts as an intermediary between the user and multiple information sources. It receives search queries, distributes them to appropriate sources (dedicated search service, web search, user-generated database), and synthesizes results from these intermediaries to provide comprehensive and accurate responses.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a terminal provides web-based search results as exception handling, then the search function can cover more domains, but the results become inaccurate and useless
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different quality standards and processing methods to results from different sources. Dedicated search service results receive priority treatment for accuracy-critical queries, while web search results are used to supplement coverage for less critical or unavailable domains, with each source contributing according to its local quality characteristics.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs partial validation and processing on web search results rather than requiring complete accuracy verification. It accepts a larger volume of results from various sources and filters/refines them, allowing excessive coverage initially followed by quality filtering to achieve both broad coverage and acceptable accuracy.
3Ease of operation
If a terminal uses a voice-based interactive interface for information search, then the ease of operation improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The voice-based interface allows users to perform search operations independently without complex manual input. The system automatically processes voice commands, interprets search intent, and retrieves results, enabling users to benefit from sophisticated functionality through simple natural language interaction.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to a method for providing a user interface on a terminal, which provides a user interactive information search service that uses, as information, a user response to an information search request so as to overcome local limitations coverable by an information search service and expand a search function for the domain that cannot be supported. A method for providing a user interface on a terminal according to one embodiment disclosed in the present specification comprises a step of transmitting, to a server, an information search request based on a user voice input; a step of receiving, from the server, a response to the information search request; and a step of displaying an item to take, in the form of a voice input, a user response to the information search request in the event that the response indicates that there is nothing found as a search result.