User Feedback Visualization System for Product Feature Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulties in making informed purchasing decisions due to the overwhelming number of product reviews, especially when trying to evaluate specific product features amidst overall feedback.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for user feedback visualization that uses natural language processing to identify and categorize product features, allowing users to interactively define features on a pictorial representation of a product and associate feedback with those features, thereby aggregating and visualizing feedback on a product's specific features.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If users scroll through hundreds or thousands of reviews to evaluate product features, then they can access comprehensive feedback information, but the time required and effort needed increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefeedback information accessibilityVSAvoidtime to evaluate product features
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the product review data by identifying and categorizing specific product features mentioned in reviews. Instead of presenting all reviews uniformly, the system divides feedback into distinct feature categories (e.g., battery life, display quality, processor performance) and visualizes them separately, allowing users to focus on specific features without wading through irrelevant review content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent extracts key product feature information from the text of user reviews using natural language processing. It identifies and pulls out specific feature mentions and their associated feedback (positive or negative), separating this structured information from the unstructured review text. This extraction process enables the system to present only the relevant feature-specific feedback to users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Reliability

If users read all product reviews to make informed decisions, then they can assess overall product quality, but the complexity of processing and comparing multiple reviews increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepurchasing decision accuracyVSAvoidfeedback processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the manual mechanical process of reading, analyzing, and comparing multiple reviews with an automated natural language processing system. The NLP algorithms automatically process review text, identify product features, determine sentiment (positive/negative feedback), and organize the data visually. This substitution eliminates the need for users to manually process complex review data while maintaining accurate purchasing decision support.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary processing layer between the raw review data and the user. This intermediary system (comprising NLP algorithms and visualization interfaces) automatically processes, categorizes, and presents feedback information in a structured and digestible format. The intermediary handles the complexity of data processing while presenting simplified, feature-specific insights to users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If the system processes and visualizes feedback for multiple product features, then the usefulness of the feedback increases, but the computational resources and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefeedback coverage for multiple featuresVSAvoidcomputational processing resources
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies partial action by focusing the NLP processing on identifying and extracting only the product feature mentions and their associated feedback from reviews, rather than processing every word and detail of every review. The system selectively processes only the portions of reviews that contain relevant feature information, reducing overall computational requirements while still providing comprehensive feature-specific feedback coverage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS11295355B1User feedback visualization
Publication Date: 2022.04.05 THE WEATHER CO LLC
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AI summary

A method, computer system, and a computer program product for user feedback visualization is provided. The present invention may include, receiving at least one image of a product from a user device. The present invention may also include, rendering a product representation of the product based on the received at least one image. The present invention may further include, registering a user-defined product feature associated with the rendered product representation. The present invention may also include, receiving a textual statement corresponding to a user opinion of the user-defined product feature. The present invention may also include, associating, based on natural language processing, at least one segment of the received textual statement with the registered user-defined product feature.