Unified Enterprise Search Interface for Object Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional enterprise software systems face limitations in efficiently searching and navigating through large volumes of enterprise data, requiring users to navigate multiple interfaces and perform separate queries to access and execute functions on different data types.
Innovation Solution
A unified user interface that allows users to input query tokens to search and filter enterprise data objects, with results grouped by type, enabling efficient navigation and execution of functions directly from the search results, utilizing a client-server architecture with indexed data and metadata search capabilities that account for user roles and permissions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional search functionality is used where users navigate to application interfaces and enter tokens to filter records, then search capability is provided, but navigation complexity increases and access efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the search functionality with the user interface by integrating token input directly into the application display. Users can input search tokens without navigating to separate search interfaces, combining the search capability with the main application view to reduce navigation steps and improve accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides a universal search interface that can search across multiple data types and application modules simultaneously. A single search interface handles diverse query types and returns results from different data sources, eliminating the need for users to know which specific interface to access for different search needs.
2Productivity
If users must navigate multiple interfaces to access different data types, then comprehensive data access is achieved, but access time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system prepares and displays search results in a consolidated manner before user selection. By pre-fetching and organizing results from multiple data types in a single interface view, the system eliminates the need for users to navigate through multiple interfaces sequentially, significantly reducing access time while maintaining comprehensive data availability.
3Measurement precision
If separate queries are required for different data types, then precise filtering is achieved, but operation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The search interface is designed to handle multiple query types and data types through a unified mechanism. The same token input interface can search across accounts, contacts, messages, and other enterprise data without requiring users to switch between different query interfaces or learn different syntax for different data types, maintaining both precision and simplicity.
Data Source
AI summary
A system includes reception of a query input by a user into a user interface, determination, in response to reception of the query, of a plurality of query results, each of the query results associated with a respective object instance of one of a plurality of object types, where the plurality of object types comprise a master data object type and a report object type, and presentation of the plurality of query results to the user, the plurality of query results comprising a first indicator of a first query result associated with an instance of the report object type and a second indicator a second query result associated with an instance of the master data object type, where the first indicator is selectable by the user to cause execution of the instance of the report object type to create a report and presentation of the report to the user, and where the second indicator is selectable by the user to cause retrieval and presentation of the instance of the master data object type to the user.