Text Conversion for Compatibility-Based Search Queries
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Solution Overview
Problem
Free-form text search queries often fail to provide users with relevant results due to the lack of compatibility-based information, making it difficult to find items that are compatible with specific parent items or included in shopping baskets.
Innovation Solution
The system converts free-form text into compatibility-based text by identifying parent items and item descriptors, constructing compatibility-based search queries, and using compatibility data to find matching items that are compatible with the parent items or included in shopping baskets.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If free-form text search queries are used, then ease of operation is improved, but measurement precision of search results deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces compatibility data and item descriptors as intermediary elements between the user's free-form search query and the actual search results. These intermediaries bridge the gap by translating informal user input into structured compatibility-based queries, thereby maintaining ease of operation while improving result precision through compatibility matching.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically changes the parameter of search query structure from free-form text to compatibility-based structured queries. By transforming the query parameters using compatibility data and item descriptors, the system maintains the ease of free-form input while achieving precise compatibility-based matching results.
2Measurement precision
If compatibility-based search is implemented, then measurement precision of search results is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-processing and storing compatibility data and item descriptors in a database before actual search operations. This pre-computation of compatibility relationships allows the search system to quickly retrieve and use pre-analyzed data, reducing the complexity of real-time compatibility analysis while maintaining high precision in search results.
3Reliability
If compatibility data processing is performed, then reliability of item matching is improved, but loss of time in query processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary processing of compatibility data and stores it in advance, so that during actual query processing, pre-computed compatibility information can be quickly retrieved and applied. This reduces the time required for compatibility analysis while maintaining reliable item matching through the use of pre-validated compatibility data.
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AI summary
Methods and system for text conversion are described. In one embodiment, free-form text associated with an item may be received. The item may be identified based on the free-form text. The item may be compatible with a parent item. The parent item may be identified based on the free-form text. An item descriptor may be identified in the free-form text. The item descriptor may be a particular term of the free-form text. Compatibility-based text may be constructed for the item based on identification of the parent item and the item descriptor. The compatibility-based text may be capable of being used to identify a plurality of matching items. Additional methods and systems are disclosed.