Cloud Cross-Clipboard Document Linking Across Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cloud services limit uninterrupted use of documents across different devices due to differences in service capabilities, time, and device types, requiring repeated search processes to access and utilize documents.
Innovation Solution
A document link system utilizing a cloud infrastructure with a cross-clipboard that stores documents from one device, identifies linkable services, and provides a list of these services on another device, allowing seamless access and use of associated documents across various devices and platforms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional cloud services are used to provide documents across different devices, then documents can be accessed on multiple devices, but users must perform repeated search processes due to differences in service capabilities, time, and device types
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by storing not only the document content but also metadata about the document's service context, device type, and capability information in the cloud clipboard. This preliminary structuring of information allows the document to be automatically adapted and delivered to different devices without requiring users to perform repeated searches, as the system has already prepared the document for multiple potential access scenarios.
2Ease of operation
If documents are stored in a cloud service, then documents can be accessed from different locations, but service capabilities and operations differ across devices and times
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud clipboard service implements universality by designing a standardized interface and data structure that can accommodate documents from different service providers and device types. The system stores documents with embedded service context information, enabling the same cloud clipboard infrastructure to serve multiple functions: storing documents from various services, adapting them to different device capabilities, and delivering them through consistent access methods across all platforms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies parameter changes by dynamically adjusting document delivery parameters based on the accessing device's capabilities. When a document is retrieved from the cloud clipboard, the system modifies delivery parameters such as format, resolution, and associated service operations to match the specific device's capabilities, thereby maintaining service consistency across diverse platforms while preserving ease of access.
3Reliability
If a search is begun on a first device, then documents can be found on that device, but the same document cannot be accessed on a second device without repeating the search process
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements copying by creating a cloud-based replica of the document along with its service context metadata when it is first found on any device. This cloud copy serves as a universal reference that can be accessed from any device without requiring the original search to be repeated. The copying mechanism preserves the document's service associations and capability requirements, ensuring reliable access while dramatically improving productivity by eliminating redundant searches.
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a cloud-based document link system and a method that uses a processor to provide a method for connecting a document between services. The cloud-based document link system includes a storage unit configured to store, on a cross-clipboard, at least one first document associated with a first service provided through a first device, an identification unit configured to identify at least one second service linkable with each first document, and a providing unit configured to provide a list of each second service in response to an access of the cross-clipboard through a second device, and to provide the second device with a second document associated with the at least one second service in response to a selection of the at least one second service.