Web Application Unified Content Display with Contextual Services
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face frustration due to the overwhelming amount of information available online, making it difficult to find specific information quickly and efficiently.
Innovation Solution
A Web application that receives user input to access Web content, retrieves additional information from various services, and presents it alongside the content, including user-selectable actions and personalized details based on user preferences, reducing the need for multiple site accesses and improving usability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users access multiple websites to gather comprehensive information, then information completeness is improved, but user time and interaction effort increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple information sources (web content, information services, and additional contextual information) into a single unified display. The system merges the primary web page content with supplementary information from external services, presenting all relevant information in one location rather than requiring users to visit multiple websites.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary information gathering by automatically accessing information services to obtain additional contextual data about the web content and user preferences before the user requests it. This pre-fetching and preparation of information reduces the time users would otherwise spend searching for related information across multiple sites.
2Loss of information
If users access multiple websites to find specific information, then information relevance is improved, but user interaction effort increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple information retrieval operations into a single integrated display. Instead of requiring users to manually navigate to different websites to find relevant information, the system combines the original web content with additional relevant information from external services in one unified interface, reducing interaction effort.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically performs information gathering and relevance matching without requiring user intervention. The web application autonomously accesses information services, retrieves additional contextual information, and presents it alongside the web content, eliminating the need for users to manually search multiple sources.
3Productivity
If web applications present comprehensive information, then user productivity is improved, but network usage and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements selective information retrieval by accessing information services only for specific web content types or when additional information is likely to be valuable. Rather than continuously fetching all possible information, the system applies partial action by retrieving supplementary data only when it enhances productivity without excessive network usage.
Data Source
AI summary
A service maintains information regarding one or more aspects of Web content, such as Web pages, that can be accessed by a computing device. The same service or a different service (e.g., a digital assistant) also maintains information regarding the user of the computing device. When a user navigates to Web content using a Web application, such as a Web browser, the services are accessed to obtain information regarding the Web content navigated to, information regarding the user, and/or user selectable tasks or actions. The Web application displays the obtained information to the user along with the Web content. The Web application displays the obtained information without altering the obtained Web content. Optionally, the Web application displays an indication that additional information regarding the Web content is available, and displays the obtained information (e.g., automatically or in response to receiving a user input request to display that additional information).