Digital Magazine Content Aggregation for Display Slot Constraints
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Solution Overview
Problem
The varying display capabilities of different client devices make it difficult for publishers to present content items in a consistent manner, leading to limitations in displaying a comprehensive listing of content items in digital magazines or sections, as conventional techniques often result in reduced display size or exclusion of content items.
Innovation Solution
A digital magazine system that organizes content items into sections and uses page templates with slots to present content, where if the number of content items exceeds the slot limit, it generates combined content items that include information about the selected items, allowing for efficient display across different devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If conventional techniques shrink the display size of each content item to display all content items in a display area, then the number of content items displayed increases, but the display quality and readability of each content item deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments content items into two categories: individual content items that are displayed separately with high quality, and combined content items that group multiple lesser-important items together. This segmentation allows the system to maintain high display quality for important content while still providing comprehensive coverage by combining less critical items into compact representations that fit within the display area.
2Adaptability or versatility
If device-specific display algorithms are used to adapt to different client devices, then the display compatibility improves, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal content combination algorithm that operates independently of specific device characteristics. The same algorithm that determines which content items to combine and how to present them works consistently across all client devices, eliminating the need for device-specific implementations while maintaining adaptability through the flexible slot-based template system.
3Area of stationary object
If some content items are excluded from display to fit within the display area, then the display area utilization improves, but the comprehensiveness of content listing deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple content items into combined content items that are displayed within single slots of the template. This merging allows the system to include more content items in the display by grouping them together, thereby improving comprehensiveness without exceeding display area constraints. The combination preserves information about multiple items while efficiently utilizing the available display space.
Data Source
AI summary
A digital magazine server generates pages presenting content items to a user in slots of a page template describing a relative positioning of content regions presenting content items. A page template may include a limited number of slots that limits the number of content regions presented to a user. If a number of content items selected for presentation to the user exceeds the limited number of slots in a page template, a plurality of content items are selected and used to generate a combined content item. The combined content item identifies each of the selected plurality of content items and allows a user to view information from various content items used to generate the combined content item.