Voice Interface Attribute Weighting for Network Transmission Reduction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Voice-based interfaces face inefficiencies due to users' difficulty in remembering sequential lists of results, leading to excessive network transmissions and resource utilization as users repeatedly request information, causing network traffic congestion and inefficient bandwidth utilization.

Innovation Solution

A system that includes a natural language processor, content selector, and attribute selector to parse audio signals, select relevant attributes for search results based on context, and generate digital components with weighted attributes for efficient data transmission, reducing the need to send all attributes and minimizing network utilization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If voice-based interfaces sequentially provide all search result attributes to users, then users can access complete information, but users experience difficulty remembering multiple items leading to excessive network transmissions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidnetwork transmission efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and transmits only the most relevant attributes for each search result based on context analysis, rather than sending all attributes. This reduces network transmission volume while maintaining essential information quality, directly resolving the contradiction between information completeness and transmission efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

Different attributes are assigned different levels of importance based on their relevance to the user's search context. The system applies local quality by selectively emphasizing certain attributes over others, ensuring that critical information is preserved while less important data is omitted, thereby reducing overall transmission requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Loss of information

If the system transmits all attributes for each search result, then users receive comprehensive data, but network bandwidth utilization becomes inefficient due to excessive data volume

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata completenessVSAvoidbandwidth utilization efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the essential attributes needed for each search result based on contextual relevance. By removing redundant or less important attributes, the system maintains data completeness for critical information while significantly reducing the total data volume transmitted, thus improving bandwidth utilization efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of transmitting all possible attributes (excessive action), the system transmits only the necessary subset of attributes (partial action) required for effective user interaction. This partial transmission approach prevents network overload while ensuring sufficient information is provided for user decision-making.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Adaptability or versatility

If voice-based interfaces provide sequential lists of results, then all search results can be presented, but users struggle to remember each item causing repeated queries

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesearch result coverageVSAvoiduser query repetition
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enhances user memory retention by attaching distinctive, context-relevant attributes to each search result. These localized quality markers help users differentiate and remember individual results within the sequential list, reducing the need for repeated queries while maintaining comprehensive search result coverage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

4Loss of information

If the system processes and transmits extensive network traffic data, then complete search information is delivered, but the computing device cannot properly process the data due to capacity limitations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation delivery completenessVSAvoidprocessing capacity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and transmits only the essential attributes required for each search result, reducing the overall data processing burden on computing devices. This extraction approach maintains delivery of critical information while preventing processing capacity overload, directly addressing the contradiction between information completeness and device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS10896213B2Interface for a distributed network system
Publication Date: 2021.01.19 GOOGLE LLC
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AI summary

The present disclosure is generally directed to a data processing system for customizing content in a voice activated computer network environment. The data processing system can provide an improved voice-based interface by selected response attributes based on response weightings. The selection of predetermined attributes can reduce size of response data and reduce network transmissions by providing more succinct audio-based responses.