Trending Product Interface Removing Price Text Clutter
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing online shopping platforms lack effective methods to present users with the most current and popular products, leading to cluttered interfaces that distract from trending items.
Innovation Solution
A website interface that displays images of products trending within a predetermined time period, determined by sales data, social media recommendations, and reviews, focusing on in-stock, in-season items with positive reviews, without prices or descriptions, to create a clean and uncluttered view of current popular products.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional online shopping platforms display all products with prices and descriptions, then users have access to comprehensive product information, but the interface becomes cluttered and users cannot focus on trending products
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential visual element (product image) from the complete product information set, removing prices, descriptions, and other text elements. This creates a clean interface that highlights trending products while users can access full information through interaction with the displayed images.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the website displays products from all time periods, then users can see a wide variety of products, but outdated trends distract from current popular products
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic time-based filtering system that automatically updates the product display based on the current date. The system calculates the trending period relative to today's date, ensuring that only currently relevant trending products are displayed while maintaining the ability to adjust the time window as needed.
3Reliability
If the website applies multiple filters to trending products, then the quality and relevance of displayed products improve, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the filtering process into distinct, independent criteria: trending status determination, time period validation, inventory availability check, and review quality assessment. Each filter operates as a separate module that processes products independently, making the system manageable and maintainable while ensuring high product quality.
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AI summary
A web site that presents a user interface that displays images of products to a user. The product images that are displayed are of products that are recently trending or popular as determined by data derived from one or more sources. Each product image is displayed without the price of the respective product and without text naming, describing or identifying the respective product. Therefore, the user interface is constructed to focus on the trending products themselves so that the user interface is clean and uncluttered, allowing customers to focus on the trending products for possible purchase.