Virtual Layer Superimposition for Web Interaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current official and news websites do not allow user interaction, and even interactive websites have limitations such as character restrictions, membership requirements, and censorship, which restrict the publication and visibility of user-generated content.
Innovation Solution
A system that superimposes user-generated content and software apps onto existing web resources by analyzing and filtering visual elements, enabling user interaction and networking through a virtual layer that adapts to contextual and structural changes, allowing users to associate and execute content and apps with web page elements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If user interaction is enabled on official and news websites, then user-generated content can be published, but technical and administrative limitations (character restrictions, membership requirements, censorship) are imposed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a virtual layer that acts as an intermediary between users and web page elements. This layer includes a visual element analyzer that identifies interactable elements, a superimposed content manager that handles user-generated content, and a mapping mechanism that connects virtual content to actual web elements without requiring modifications to the underlying website infrastructure. This intermediary architecture enables user interaction while avoiding direct confrontation with administrative limitations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the interaction process into distinct functional modules: visual element analysis, content superimposition, coordinate mapping, and rendering. By dividing the complex interaction system into separate manageable components, each handling a specific aspect of user interaction, the patent reduces overall system complexity while enabling versatile user engagement with web pages.
2Area of stationary object
If comments are presented at the lower end of user interfaces, then space is available for display, but user engagement decreases and meaningful data cannot be collected or compiled
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions the comment display from a traditional two-dimensional bottom-position layout to a multi-dimensional spatial arrangement where comments are superimposed directly onto relevant web page elements. The system uses coordinate mapping to position comments in the same visual space as their associated content, creating a more engaging and contextually relevant user experience that increases both visibility and user interaction.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of uniformly positioning all comments at the bottom of the interface, the system applies local quality by placing comments specifically at the locations where they are most relevant to the associated web page elements. Each comment's position is dynamically determined based on its relationship to the visual element it references, ensuring optimal visibility and engagement for each individual comment while maintaining efficient use of display space.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a virtual layer is superimposed on web pages to enable interaction, then user-generated content can be associated with web elements, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy layer that mirrors the structure and elements of the original web page. This copied layer includes virtual representations of visual elements, their positions, and relationships, allowing user-generated content to be associated with web elements through the virtual model rather than requiring direct integration with the complex original page structure. This copying approach simplifies the interaction model while maintaining full adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual layer is designed as a universal interface that can interact with multiple types of web page elements (images, text, videos, interactive components) through a single unified framework. The visual element analyzer and coordinate mapping system provide multi-functional capabilities that work across diverse web page structures and technologies, reducing the need for element-specific interaction code and thereby simplifying the overall system architecture.
Data Source
AI summary
A web resource interaction system includes a computer implemented method, a computer system, and a non-transitory computer readable medium to provide an infrastructure that enables a controlled interaction environment on web resources, where the system continuously and dynamically adapts itself to the contextual and/or structural alterations of web resources, while controlling the objects to be interacted, e.g. according to their roles, and/or interrelationship, and/or predefined features introduced to the system. Thus, within the scope of any data network including the Internet, the web resource interaction system provides an infrastructure that enables a steady and consistent interaction environment, where human and machine users may interact with web resources by adding—and/or reaching to—virtually any kind of user generated content and/or user generated software application—stored and executed by the system—, or interact with each other through user generated contents and/or user generated software applications that act as network links.