Bi-directional Connectors for Heterogeneous Application Collaboration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing collaboration environments between different content creation programs face challenges due to discontinuities between software applications, leading to limitations in data compatibility and hindered true collaboration across diverse CCPs.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of bi-directional connectors within a common interaction environment identifies and formats features or data portions from an initial input file, allowing for collaboration between heterogeneous content creation programs by providing a standardized data format.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users work with different content creation programs, then each user can use their preferred application, but true collaboration is prevented due to discontinuities between applications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a common interaction environment that acts as an intermediary between different content creation programs. This environment receives files from various CCPs, presents them in a standardized format, and enables collaborative operations. The intermediary translates between different application formats and the common environment format, allowing users to collaborate despite using different native applications.
2Ease of operation
If a common interaction environment presents files to multiple users, then collaboration interface is provided, but modifications cannot be saved to the original file due to format discontinuities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the common interaction environment monitors modifications made to file representations and automatically translates these changes back to the original file format. When users collaborate and modify the presented file, the system captures these changes, converts them to the source CCP's format, and saves them to the original file, ensuring modification persistence across heterogeneous applications.
3Adaptability or versatility
If content generation applications differ in information provided for rendering, then each application maintains its features, but certain features become unusable across different applications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the information parameters between different content creation programs by converting application-specific rendering data into a standardized format that the common interaction environment can process. The system adjusts and maps parameters from various CCP formats to a universal representation, enabling features from different applications to be accessed and manipulated within the common environment without losing application independence.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods of the present disclosure include bi-directional connectors to transmit information for supported content elements between two different content creation programs using a scene location. A content element may be associated with a data file that includes one or more supported features that may be used to render the content element within the scene location. For the one or more supported features, a dataset may be generated that can be used to establish connectors that permit a different content creation to edit or otherwise collaborate on the content element by modifying the attribute values for the one or more supported features. The modified values may then be processed and rendered within the scene location, thereby permitting heterogenous content creation programs to collaborate on a common content element.