Text Tagging System for Content Retrieval

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Solution Overview

Problem

As the quantity of content stored in portable digital communication devices increases, users face significant time and effort in finding specific content, leading to increased operational burden on the device and user memory challenges.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device and method that allows users to select and store text as tags associated with content, enabling efficient search and retrieval, reducing the time and effort required to find content and alleviating operational burdens by providing various search functions and improving user convenience in tagging.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If the quantity of content stored in the portable digital communication device increases, then the storage capacity is improved, but the time and effort required for users to find specific content increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequantity of contentVSAvoidtime and effort to find content
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The content management system segments content by organizing it into multiple categories and subcategories, allowing users to navigate through hierarchical structures to quickly locate specific content without searching through the entire content library

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary search interface that uses keyword search functionality, allowing users to input search terms and retrieve relevant content quickly without manually browsing through all stored content

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Quantity of substance

If the quantity of content stored in the portable digital communication device increases, then the storage capacity is improved, but the operational burden on the device increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequantity of contentVSAvoidoperational burden
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides automatic content categorization and tagging features that organize content without requiring manual user input, reducing the operational burden on users while maintaining large content libraries

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

An intermediary search interface is provided that automatically processes search queries and returns relevant results, reducing the operational burden on users to manually locate content within large collections

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Quantity of substance

If the quantity of content stored in the portable digital communication device increases, then the storage capacity is improved, but the user's memory burden increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequantity of contentVSAvoiduser memory burden
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system acts as an intermediary by providing search and categorization functions that compensate for users' limited memory capacity, allowing users to access specific content without needing to remember its location or characteristics

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides feedback by displaying relevant content results based on user searches or selections, helping users quickly locate desired content without relying on their own memory of content details

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12124753B2Electronic device for providing text associated with content, and operating method therefor
Publication Date: 2024.10.22 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic device includes a display, a memory, and at least one processor configured to, execute an application, obtain a content from the executed application, obtain at least one piece of information associated with the content, obtain at least one first text corresponding to the at least one piece of information, identify at least one second text associated with the at least one first text among a plurality of texts stored in the memory, control the display to display at least one first tag object including the at least one first text and at least one second tag object including the at least one second text, and based on a tag object being selected from among the displayed at least one first tag object and the displayed at least one second tag object, store, in the memory, a text corresponding to the selected tag object to be associated with the content.