Unified Discovery Control for Centralized Web Service Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face a disparate and disjointed user experience when interacting with various services offered by websites, as these services are often scattered across a web page and lack centralized management, making it difficult to discover, install, and manage them.
Innovation Solution
A unified discovery control is integrated into the web browser, providing a central location to describe and manage services, allowing users to add, update, and uninstall services, with visual indicators to notify the user of installed services and a user interface for service management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If services are scattered across various physical locations on a web page, then services can be offered at multiple locations, but users must hunt and find services which increases user effort and time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a unified discovery control as an intermediary component that aggregates service information from multiple locations and presents it in a single centralized interface. This mediator collects service data from various physical locations on the web page and consolidates it, allowing users to discover all services from one location rather than searching across the entire page.
2Adaptability or versatility
If each service has its own specific interaction interface, then each service can be customized, but the user experience becomes disparate and disjointed across multiple services
Solution Approach 1:
The unified discovery control serves as a universal interface that handles multiple services through a single consistent mechanism. Rather than requiring separate interfaces for each service, this multi-functional control aggregates service management capabilities, providing a standardized way to interact with diverse services while maintaining their individual customization options.
3Adaptability or versatility
If services are installed and managed individually, then each service can be managed independently, but the management process becomes complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple service management functions into a single unified discovery control interface. By combining service discovery, installation, and management capabilities into one consolidated control, the system allows users to manage multiple services through a single interface rather than navigating through separate management mechanisms for each service.
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AI summary
Various embodiments provide a unified discovery control that can be incorporated as part of a web browser. The unified discovery control provides a central location that describes various services that a website has to offer. In addition, the unified discovery control can allow the user to interact with the individual services that the website has to offer as by providing the user with the ability to add, update, uninstall and/or otherwise manage the various services that are described in the unified discovery control. Thus, the unified discovery control provides a centralized management system that provides the user with a common, predictable and repeatable user experience for interacting with various services that a website can offer.