Activity Stream Foundations for Shared File Contribution Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current techniques for managing user contributions and activities in shared documents and folders are cumbersome and inefficient, often requiring complex user interfaces and excessive user input, leading to wasted time and energy, especially in battery-operated devices.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of electronic devices with touch-sensitive surfaces and displays that present user contributions and activities in a streamlined manner, allowing users to access relevant information with minimal input, such as swiping actions, and providing update activity panels for digital files, which attribute contributions to specific users, reducing cognitive burden and conserving power.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If existing techniques are used to manage user contributions in shared documents, then complete tracking of all contributions is achieved, but the user interface becomes complex and time-consuming requiring multiple key presses
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and displays only the most relevant contribution information (e.g., recent contributions, contributions from specific users) in a simplified format, rather than showing all contributions. This allows complete tracking capability to exist in the system while presenting only essential information to the user, reducing interface complexity while maintaining information availability.
Solution Approach 2:
The contribution information is segmented into different categories or levels (e.g., recent contributions, contributions by user, contribution types), allowing users to access specific segments based on their needs. This segmentation reduces the initial interface complexity while maintaining comprehensive tracking capability through organized information presentation.
2Loss of information
If all contribution indications are displayed to users, then complete information is provided, but users must scroll through multiple pages causing time and energy waste
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and prioritizes the most important contribution information for immediate display, such as recent contributions or contributions from active users. Less critical information is made accessible through additional interactions or different views, ensuring complete information is available without requiring users to scroll through multiple pages of all contributions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system displays a partial set of contribution information that is sufficient for most user needs (recent or relevant contributions) without showing all possible contributions. This partial display approach reduces scrolling time while maintaining information completeness for typical use cases, with the option to access additional information when needed.
3Ease of operation
If complex user input is required to access contribution information, then detailed control is achieved, but device energy is wasted and battery life is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically manages the display of contribution information based on predefined criteria (e.g., automatically showing recent contributions or contributions from users with specific permissions). This self-service approach eliminates the need for complex user input sequences while maintaining appropriate information display, thereby reducing device energy consumption without sacrificing control precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and organizing contribution information according to relevance criteria before user interaction. This preliminary organization allows the system to present ready-to-view information without requiring energy-intensive complex user input sequences, maintaining control precision while reducing energy usage.
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AI summary
The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing user contributions and activity for shared files and folder. With respect to a document, at least a portion of the document is presented. User input in the form of a request to shift the document in a first direction is received. In response to the request passing a predetermined boundary, indications of content contribution attributable to different users is displayed. With respect to one or more digital files, a user input component is presented and is associated with the one or more digital files. User input is received via the user input component. In response to the received user input, an update activity panel is presented which shows multiple activity attributable to different users.