Digital Magazine Page Template Selection for Device Adaptability

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Solution Overview

Problem

Publishers face challenges in optimizing the presentation of digital content across various devices with different display areas and resolutions, leading to resource and performance issues, and struggle to maintain user engagement due to the increasing diversity of devices.

Innovation Solution

A digital magazine server organizes content items into sections and uses flexible page templates with display regions that specify content item sizes as percentages of the display area, allowing for dynamic layout adjustment and sub-template selection based on user interaction and device characteristics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If publishers create content layouts customized to individual devices, then presentation optimization is improved, but device complexity and resource requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedevice adaptabilityVSAvoidlayout customization complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements universal page templates that can be applied across multiple device types (smartphones, tablets, desktops) without requiring device-specific custom layouts. The template system provides a single multi-functional framework that adapts to different display sizes and resolutions, eliminating the need for separate layout designs for each device while maintaining presentation quality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts layout parameters such as column count, grid dimensions, and content spacing based on the display characteristics of the target device. By changing these parameters within a unified template framework rather than creating entirely different layouts, the system achieves device adaptability without proportionally increasing complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If publishers optimize content presentation for each device, then user engagement is improved, but computing resources and performance are consumed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepresentation optimizationVSAvoidcomputing resource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-defines multiple page templates with different layout configurations before content delivery. These templates are prepared in advance with optimized structures for various device types, allowing the system to quickly select and apply the appropriate template without performing complex real-time optimization calculations, thus reducing computing resource consumption during content presentation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Rather than optimizing content presentation from scratch for each device, the system changes parameters within pre-established template frameworks. This approach maintains presentation optimization while significantly reducing the computational burden of generating device-specific layouts, as the template structure is already optimized and only parameter values need to be adjusted.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of manufacture

If publishers use fixed content layouts, then ease of manufacture is improved, but adaptability to different display areas deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelayout production easeVSAvoiddisplay area adaptability

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The page layout is segmented into modular components such as columns, rows, and content blocks that can be independently configured. This segmentation allows the template to be easily manufactured and deployed while maintaining high adaptability, as the modular structure can be dynamically arranged to fit different display areas without requiring complete redesign of the entire layout.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The template system creates a universal framework that serves multiple display configurations simultaneously. By designing a single multi-functional template structure rather than multiple fixed layouts, the system achieves both ease of manufacture (single template to produce) and high adaptability (works across various display areas and device types).

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS10067930B2Page template selection for content presentation in a digital magazine

Publication Date: 2018.09.04 FLIPBOARD INC

AI summary

A digital magazine server creates a section of a digital magazine including content items based on a page template describing the relative positioning and sizing of content items. A page template may include display regions specifying the size of content items as a percentage of a display area. Additionally, a display region in a page template may specify use of a sub-template for presenting content items. The sub-template includes display regions specifying the relative positioning of content items presented in the display region specifying use of the sub-template. To generate the section of the digital magazine, various page templates are scored and a page template is selected based on the scoring. One or more diversity policies may be enforced when selecting the page template to improve user interaction with the digital magazine.