Data Drop Window for Automated Third-Party Document Population
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for importing digital data, such as images and text, into third-party documents are cumbersome and limited to specific applications like Microsoft Word, lacking flexibility and complexity.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that involves launching an information management software application, opening a data drop window to display a document layout, selecting and dragging/dropping digital files into data holder locations, and using an API to communicate with a third-party document generation application to generate a populated document.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If digital image content is automatically imported into a Microsoft Word document using macros and document templates, then the document can be populated with image and patient content, but the process becomes cumbersome and complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex macro configuration from the document template and separates it into a standalone image management software application. This allows the automated import functionality to be reused across multiple applications without requiring each application to have its own complex macro setup, thereby reducing overall system complexity while maintaining automation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary image management software application that acts as a bridge between the digital image content source and various third-party document applications. This intermediary handles the complex automation logic centrally, allowing different applications to benefit from automated import without each needing to implement their own complex macro systems.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a complex configuration of macros and document templates is used to import digital data, then Microsoft Word documents can be populated with content, but the solution becomes unique to Microsoft Word and lacks flexibility
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal image management software application that can export digital image content to multiple different third-party applications (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) through a single interface. This eliminates the need for separate macro configurations for each application, providing both versatility and reduced complexity by making the system work with multiple applications uniformly.
3Productivity
If manual processes are used to populate documents with digital data, then application complexity is reduced, but the process becomes time-consuming and less efficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by having the image management software application pre-process and organize digital image content before it needs to be imported into documents. The application can automatically select, format, and prepare images for export, so that when a user initiates an import to a third-party application, the content is already ready to go, significantly reducing the time required for document population.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods of populating a document with digital information content. An information management software application is launched on a computer-based platform and a data drop window or a base format document is opened such that digital files, having digital data content, may be easily dragged and dropped (or pasted) into data holder locations of the data drop window or the base format document. A third-party document generation application is launched on the computer-based platform such that the third-party document generation application is able to communicate with the information management software application, for example, through an API, or the third-party document generation application is able to open and save the base format document, such that a third-party document, that is populated with the digital data content, may be automatically generated.