User-Specific Domain Name Candidate Display for Information Processing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing information processing apparatuses display domain name candidates universally, leading to low usability as rarely input domain names are sometimes displayed, affecting user experience.

Innovation Solution

The apparatus determines domain name candidates based on user-specific identification information, using a transmitting unit, obtaining unit, and display unit to show domain names relevant to each user, obtained from personal or shared databases, ensuring only relevant domain names are displayed.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If domain name candidates are displayed universally to all users, then the system can provide domain name suggestions, but the usability decreases because rarely input domain names are displayed

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveusabilityVSAvoidrelevance of displayed information
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by obtaining and storing user identification information before displaying domain name candidates. The control unit retrieves user-specific domain names from storage based on the obtained user ID, ensuring that relevant domain names are displayed before the user needs to input them. This resolves the contradiction by preparing user-specific data in advance rather than using universal defaults.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies local quality by providing different domain name candidates to different users based on their individual identification information. Instead of a uniform approach, each user receives customized domain name suggestions tailored to their specific usage patterns and preferences, thereby improving both usability and information relevance simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Loss of information

If user-specific identification information is obtained and processed, then relevant domain names can be displayed, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverelevance of displayed informationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

User identification information is obtained and stored in advance before the domain name display function is needed. The control unit retrieves pre-stored user-specific domain names from storage based on the obtained user ID, avoiding complex real-time processing and keeping the system architecture simple while maintaining high information relevance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10491761B2Information processing apparatus, control method for information processing apparatus, and storage medium, for displaying a candidate for selection
Publication Date: 2019.11.26 CANON KK
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AI summary

An information processing apparatus disclosed herein includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit image data, an obtaining unit configured to obtain identification information of a user, and a display unit configured to display a candidate for a domain name to be used in a destination address of the image data to be transmitted by the transmitting unit. In this case, the display unit displays a domain name based on the identification information obtained by the obtaining unit as a candidate for the domain name to be used in the destination address.