Offering a fast, easy, and consistent content discovery experience is a crucial competitive advantage for companies who participate in the global digital marketplace. kannuu offers this through a data indexing methodology, lookup algorithm, and user interface that works on almost any device.

Index

kannuu technology begins by analyzing source content and organizing it into a hierarchical tree of string sections. The resultant structure is called the kannuu index. The kannuu index is the basis for kannuu lookup and is the mechanism that determins the order in which sections of character strings are presented to the user. When the index is created, kannuu automatically assigns priorities to each item in the list to assist the algoritm in determining what to present the user at each menu level. The index can also be manuipulated to assign priorities to certain items based on business drivers.

Algorithm

Once the index tree is generated, lookup is executed by presenting the user with the most likely sets of characters needed to build their desired phrase. As options are selected, the kannuu algorithm analyzes the kannuu Index and traverses through the heirarchy tree of string sections for presentation to the user interface.

At each menu level, the options that are not selected are added to an exclusion list for that lookup session. Because of this, any list items below the set of characters that were not chosen at each menu level are ignored for the rest of that lookup session. The resultant benefit for the user is that the kannuu lookup algorithm requires less time to sift through the least amount of characters strings necessary to find the desired lookup phrase. This key competitive advantage enables kannuu to work with source lists of any size, with only fractional increases in the number of clicks required to find content as the list exponentially grows.

User Interface

A kannuu-based user interface will present options at each menu level, along with a means for the user to indicate their desired choice. For example, a device with a screen and four-way directional button may provide the user with up to four choices at a time - selected by pressing the button up, down, left, or right. The system also provides an option for the user to request more choices when the desired option is not displayed.

The kannuu user interface is fully customizable, enabling a consistent brand experience for content providers and device manufactures. The kannuu technology works on multiple devices and is also fully customizable to multiple operating systems and application environments.