Concept Development Text Editor with Dynamic Element Synchronization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current office software applications are not optimized for concept development, leading to inefficiencies in capturing and representing product ideas, as they require separate tools for text and visual elements, causing difficulties in collaboration, synchronization, and generating variations of product concepts.
Innovation Solution
A computer program product that provides a framework for building visual representations of product concepts with textual and graphical components, allowing dynamic elements to be associated with variant lists and edited with specific formatting functionality, ensuring consistent changes across all variants.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If general-purpose office software applications are used to capture and organize idea elements and their variants, then the tools are readily available and easy to access, but productivity deteriorates due to the need for separate tools for text and visual elements, requiring manual copying and pasting, and difficult synchronization across documents
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines text editing functionality with visual representation capabilities into a single integrated system. The text editor directly generates and updates visual representations (such as charts, graphs, or diagrams) based on the textual content being edited, eliminating the need to switch between separate office applications and manually copy-paste content between them.
Solution Approach 2:
The text editor is enhanced with content-aware functionality that automatically performs multiple tasks: text processing, visual representation generation, variant creation, and synchronization across documents. This multi-functional approach replaces the need for multiple separate applications (word processors, presentation software, spreadsheet tools) that were previously required for concept development.
2Ease of operation
If presentation applications are used to generate visual representations of product concepts, then visual communication is achieved, but device complexity increases and productivity decreases due to the need to create separate copies for each concept variation and manually update multiple slides
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the visual representation generation function into the text editor itself. As users edit text content, the system automatically generates and updates corresponding visual representations within the same document interface, eliminating the need to switch to separate presentation applications and manually recreate visuals for each concept variation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically generating visual representations and their variants before the user would need them. When text content is edited, the system proactively creates updated visual representations and propagates changes across all relevant documents, so that when users need to present concept variations, they are already prepared and synchronized.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate documents are used for capturing ideas and creating visual representations, then content organization is achieved, but loss of time increases due to the need to share and synchronize documents between different applications and stakeholders
Solution Approach 1:
The enhanced text editor serves as a universal platform that combines document creation, visual representation generation, variant management, and collaboration features. All these functions operate within a single application environment, eliminating the need to share and synchronize files across multiple separate applications (word processors, presentation software, spreadsheet tools), thereby reducing collaboration time and improving real-time synchronization among stakeholders.
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AI summary
A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations including providing a visual representation of a product concept comprising a textual component comprising at least one dynamic textual element and at least on static textual element and providing text editing functionality of the textual component such that a selection of any text forming a part of the at least one dynamic textual element automatically results in the selection of the entire at least one dynamic textual element wherein the text editing functionality comprises changing a format of at least a part of the at least one dynamic textual element.