Intelligent Change Summarization for Cloud Documents
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing collaborative design systems struggle to effectively manage and navigate changes in cloud documents over time, particularly in long-lived documents, making it difficult to identify and prioritize significant changes without manual effort.
Innovation Solution
An automated design management system that compares document versions, scores changes, and categorizes them by significance, allowing users to quickly navigate to inflection points and mark important versions for archival purposes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If cloud documents are auto-saved frequently to enable real-time collaboration, then collaboration capability is improved, but change management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system that automatically analyzes version history and identifies inflection points, acting as a mediator between the frequent auto-saves and the user. This intermediary processes the raw version data and presents simplified change summaries, reducing the management complexity while preserving the collaboration benefits of frequent auto-saves
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-service by automatically comparing versions, detecting significant changes, and generating change summaries without requiring user intervention. The system autonomously identifies inflection points and presents them to users, eliminating the need for manual change tracking while maintaining comprehensive version control
2Loss of information
If all document versions are retained for long-lived documents, then version history completeness is improved, but navigation difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the significant inflection points from the complete version history while retaining access to all versions. By separating the significant changes from the routine versions, the system maintains version history completeness but presents only the essential information for navigation, dramatically improving ease of operation
Solution Approach 2:
The version history is segmented into significant inflection points and routine versions. The system divides the continuous version timeline into discrete meaningful segments, allowing users to navigate through key changes without being overwhelmed by every individual version, thus balancing completeness with navigability
3Measurement precision
If manual change tracking is performed to identify significant edits, then change identification accuracy is improved, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical process of change tracking with an automated computational system. The system uses algorithms to compare versions and identify inflection points, achieving accurate change identification without requiring manual review, thus eliminating time consumption while maintaining precision
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-service change identification by automatically analyzing version differences and detecting significant edits. This autonomous process eliminates the need for manual time investment while maintaining high accuracy in identifying meaningful changes through systematic comparison algorithms
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments are disclosed for generating an intelligent change summary are described. In some embodiments, a method of generating an intelligent change summary includes obtaining a representation of a plurality of versions of a document, determining a distance score based on a comparison of a first of version of the document and a second version of the document, the distance score representing a magnitude of changes made from the first version of the document to the second version of the document, and generating a change summary of the document based on the distance score.