Navigable Text Content Overview via Representative Term Linking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Navigating and finding information of interest in large amounts of text content is time-consuming and resource-intensive, as existing technologies do not effectively provide a navigable overview of text content.
Innovation Solution
A method that parses text content to generate representative terms linked to specific portions, allowing for aggregation and display alongside the text, enabling users to navigate and visualize content more efficiently through techniques like word clouds and interactive navigation panels.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If automated summarization technologies are used to analyze content, then content analysis capability is improved, but time and resources required for navigation increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the text content into multiple sections with section headers, and generates section summaries for each segment individually. This allows the system to process and analyze content in manageable chunks rather than as a single large block, improving both analysis capability and navigation efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary navigation interface that presents section headers and summaries as a middle layer between the full text content and the user. This intermediary structure enables users to quickly scan and identify relevant sections without reading the entire text, reducing navigation time while maintaining comprehensive content analysis capability.
2Ease of manufacture
If word clouds are used to visualize content importance, then visual representation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent generates simplified copy representations (section headers and summaries) that replicate the essential information structure of the full text content. These copied elements can be visually represented through word clouds and other visualization techniques without requiring complex processing of the entire original text, thus improving visual representation while controlling system complexity.
3Ease of operation
If representative terms are generated and linked to text portions, then navigability is improved, but processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts key representative terms and section headers from the text content and links them to specific portions of the text. This extraction process creates a simplified navigation structure that improves ease of operation by allowing users to jump directly to relevant sections, while the processing complexity is managed by focusing only on extracting essential elements rather than analyzing the entire text in detail.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, and computer program products for summarizing, displaying, and navigating content. In one embodiment, text content is parsed to generate representative terms that are linked to portions of the text content to which they correspond. The representative terms can be provided to a user alongside the text content to provide an up-to-date navigable overview of the text content for the user.