Visual POI Basket for Simplified Route Configuration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users with limited technical abilities face difficulties configuring complex wireless communication devices for location-related features due to extensive menu navigation, text entry, and parameter configuration, leading to underutilization of device features.
Innovation Solution
A system that allows users to visually select and drag points-of-interest (POIs) into a basket component for processing, enabling the formulation of a composite result, which can be displayed, stored, or shared, using a user-friendly interface that leverages both portable and desktop devices for better usability and resource utilization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional menu navigation and text entry methods are used for configuring location-related features, then device functionality is achieved, but user complexity and time consumption increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses visual copies of POI data items (graphical icons representing locations, restaurants, attractions) that users can directly manipulate. Instead of requiring users to navigate through menus and enter text, the system presents visual representations of data items that can be selected and dragged, copying the essential information in a visually intuitive format that reduces configuration time and complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical interaction of menu navigation and text entry with a drag-and-drop graphical interface. Users interact with visual representations of POI data items by dragging them into a basket component, substituting complex text-based configuration with simple visual manipulation that significantly reduces the time and effort required to configure location-related features
2Adaptability or versatility
If extensive menu navigation and parameter configuration are required, then complete device functionality is accessed, but user ability requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic processing of POI data items once users drag them into the basket. The application autonomously formulates composite results, generates routes, and processes location data without requiring users to navigate through complex parameter configuration menus. This self-service approach allows users with limited technical ability to access complete device functionality by simply selecting visual data items
Solution Approach 2:
The basket component serves as an intermediary between user selection and system processing. Users drag visual POI data items into the basket, and the system automatically handles the complex processing, route formulation, and result generation. This intermediary interface shields users from technical complexity while maintaining full feature accessibility
3Ease of operation
If visual drag and drop interface is implemented, then ease of operation improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The user interface is segmented into distinct functional components: a display area showing visual POI data items, a basket component for collecting selections, and a processing area for results. This segmentation allows the complex drag-and-drop functionality to be presented as simple, discrete visual elements that users can manipulate independently, improving ease of operation without overwhelming the user with interface complexity
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AI summary
The various embodiments of the present invention may be directed to a system for facilitating data processing in a visual manner. An application may include, inter alia, a basket component for visually representing the particular data items that a user desires to be processed by an application. The application may allow a user to initially search for data items that may be of interest (e.g., points-of-interest or POIs). A user may select POIs to obtain additional descriptive information regarding each data item. If the selected POI is to be included in processing, a user may drag the visual representation of the POI into the basket component. When the basket component contains all POIs desired for processing, the user may further instruct the application to formulate a result that is a composite of some or all of the POIs in the basket component.