Voting User Interface Integrated in Search Results
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing search technologies do not effectively enable users to participate in voting-based campaigns within search results, lacking a seamless integration of voting interfaces that reflect user preferences accurately.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a voting user interface (VUI) within search results that allows users to interact with voting-based campaigns by determining explicit or implicit intent through search queries, matching query terms with knowledge graphs, and displaying voting options based on user attributes and campaign rules.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a voting user interface is integrated within search results, then user participation in voting-based campaigns is enabled and preferences are reflected more accurately, but the complexity of the search system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the voting user interface directly into the search results page, combining two previously separate functions (search display and voting interaction) into a single integrated interface. This allows users to participate in voting-based campaigns without navigating to separate pages, thereby enabling user participation while managing system complexity through unified architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The search results page is enhanced to serve multiple functions: displaying search results, presenting voting options, and collecting user votes. By making the search interface universal and multi-functional, the system enables voting participation without requiring separate dedicated voting systems, thus improving adaptability while controlling complexity.
2Ease of operation
If voting options are displayed within search results, then user engagement is enhanced and informed voting is enabled, but the information processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and structuring voting-related information before it needs to be displayed. Search queries are analyzed in advance to determine voting campaign relevance, and voting options are prepared and integrated into search results beforehand, reducing the information processing load during actual user interaction while enhancing engagement.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer that mediates between the search query processing and the voting interface display. This intermediary component handles the complex information processing by matching search queries with voting campaigns, filtering relevant information, and formatting voting options, thereby reducing the direct information processing burden on the core search system while enabling enhanced user engagement.
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, receiving a search query from a user; determining that a voting user interface (VUI) is to be provided based on the search query, the VUI enabling the user to submit one or more votes in a vote-based campaign; receiving search results that are responsive to the search query; and transmitting instructions to display the search results and the VUI.