Web Page Content Linking via Non-Intrusive Supplemental Overlays

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing online platforms lack a comprehensive solution for enhancing user engagement and interaction with online content while preserving the integrity of original web pages, lacking advanced technologies for secure content association, personalized recommendations, and immersive experiences.

Innovation Solution

A software-based framework that integrates AI-powered content curation, augmented reality, and secure content association technologies, enabling users to create and share non-intrusive overlays on web pages, with features like gamification, e-commerce, and cross-platform integration.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If users create and share supplemental content linked to web pages, then user engagement and content sharing are enhanced, but the integrity and originality of web content may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser engagementVSAvoidcontent integrity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments content into two distinct categories: original web content and supplemental user-generated content. By separating these content types and associating them through metadata rather than direct modification, the system enables enhanced user engagement while preserving the integrity of original web pages. The supplemental content is stored separately and linked via identifiers, ensuring original content remains unaltered.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary layer (metadata structure with identifiers like page_id, content_id, and linking mechanisms) between original web content and user-generated supplemental content. This intermediary prevents direct modification of original content while enabling secure associations, thus maintaining content integrity while facilitating engagement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If advanced cipher and encoding technologies are used for secure content association, then content security and accuracy are improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent association accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs parameter changes through the use of encoded identifiers, hashes, and ciphered metadata fields to secure content associations. By transforming data into encoded formats (e.g., hashing page URLs, encrypting user content metadata), the system achieves high association accuracy without requiring complex cryptographic implementations, thus balancing security with manageable complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Productivity

If AI-powered content curation and personalization are implemented, then content relevance and user experience are enhanced, but computational resources and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent personalizationVSAvoidcomputational resources
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements AI-powered content curation selectively rather than universally. Personalization algorithms are applied only to specific content types and user interactions that require enhanced relevance, rather than processing all content uniformly. This partial application reduces computational resource consumption while maintaining high personalization effectiveness for critical content streams.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

4Productivity

If gamification elements and marketplace features are integrated, then user participation and e-commerce functionality are improved, but platform complexity and development requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser participationVSAvoidplatform complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a universal content management framework that serves multiple functions: content storage, user authentication, gamification tracking, marketplace transactions, and social sharing. By designing a multi-functional platform where a single infrastructure supports diverse features through modular components, the system reduces overall complexity compared to separate systems for each function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12619746B2Social networking content supplemented web page linker
Publication Date: 2026.05.05 TORRES TERRY LEE

AI summary

The present invention relates to a method and system for non-intrusively associating encrypted supplemental content with web pages. The method involves creating user profiles for community-based content association, allowing users to create and manage supplemental content, and associating the content with specific web pages using URL, vision technology, and/or content recognition technologies. The system provides secure online transactions using smart contracts and blockchain technologies while delivering real-time notifications to users. Additionally, the platform offers personalized content recommendations, content moderation, and privacy controls for managing access to content. Guest access allows unregistered users to browse and view content before registration. The system ensures the integrity of the web page by preserving its original structure while enabling the non-intrusive display of supplemental content.