Adaptive Content Aggregation for Mobile Display Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies for assembling, extracting, and deploying content from electronic documents are limited in flexibility, efficiency, and user customization, particularly on mobile devices, where they fail to minimize bandwidth and screen real estate usage while supporting dynamic and varied content aggregation.
Innovation Solution
The system enables personalized content aggregations from any electronic source, allowing users to specify and organize content dynamically, using a content request engine that processes requests through various repositories and engines to optimize content delivery and display, minimizing bandwidth and screen usage while allowing adaptive layouts and content shifting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content is aggregated from multiple electronic sources with varied structures, then content versatility and user customization are improved, but system complexity and difficulty of content extraction increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal content extraction system that can handle multiple electronic document formats (HTML, XML, PDF, Word) through a single integrated platform. The system uses standardized data models and abstraction layers that allow it to process diverse content sources without requiring separate extraction mechanisms for each format, thus achieving versatility without proportional increases in complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces intermediary components including content adapters, data models, and abstraction layers that mediate between diverse electronic document sources and the core processing system. These intermediaries standardize the interface between varied content formats and the extraction engine, allowing the system to handle multiple sources through a unified approach rather than requiring complex direct handling of each format
2Area of stationary object
If content is delivered to mobile devices with limited bandwidth, then screen real estate utilization is improved, but content completeness and information quality deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments content into hierarchical levels of importance and detail, delivering different portions of content based on device capabilities and user needs. Critical information is delivered in condensed form while less essential content is omitted or provided on demand, allowing the system to optimize screen real estate usage without completely sacrificing content completeness
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by delivering different content densities and levels of detail to different regions of the display based on their importance and the device's bandwidth constraints. High-priority content receives fuller treatment while lower-priority content is summarized or omitted, optimizing the balance between screen real estate usage and information completeness
3Adaptability or versatility
If content aggregation supports dynamic and varied sources, then user personalization is improved, but bandwidth consumption and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-processing and caching content from electronic sources before it is needed for delivery. Content is extracted, standardized, and stored in intermediate formats in advance, so that when users request personalized aggregations, the system can assemble results quickly without performing full extraction and processing at query time, thus reducing processing time while maintaining support for diverse sources
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention permit the specification and servicing of aggregations of content constituent parts that derive from electronic documents. An incorporated content constituent part may correspond to any constituent part of any accessible document. In various embodiments, information derived from the intended layouts of source documents is employed to construct specifications of the constituent parts. The specifications may include search conditions. Graphic methods may be employed to construct the specification. Embodiments of the present invention enable content aggregations to appear in display presentations whose layouts may be adaptive to varying degrees. In various embodiments, flexible content-shifting methods are employed for display presentations of content aggregations. Resultantly, the display of content aggregations on mobile and other devices may be effectuated without wasting download bandwidth and display screen real estate.