Document Archival System Vectorized Media References
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for archiving and rendering digital documents with supplemental media, such as online banking statements, face challenges in efficiently integrating and displaying multimedia elements like images, animations, and videos, especially in a format that allows for seamless archival and reconstruction across different devices and platforms.
Innovation Solution
A document archival system that processes digital documents and supplemental media into a vectorized format, using a Portable Document Protocol (PDP) to embed references and store them in databases, allowing for secure, contextually linked media to be rendered on output devices, enabling financial institutions to upload and specify usage criteria for these media elements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If digital documents with supplemental media are archived in traditional formats, then archival simplicity is maintained, but rendering compatibility across different devices and platforms deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the document archival system into distinct components: a document database for storing document data, a supplemental media database for storing media files, and a rendering system that coordinates between them. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while maintaining overall compatibility across devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a universal rendering system that can display documents with supplemental media across multiple device types and platforms. The system uses standardized data structures and protocols that enable the same archived document to be rendered consistently on different devices, achieving multi-functionality and broad compatibility.
2Ease of operation
If supplemental media are embedded directly in digital documents, then media-display integration is improved, but document file size and storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent embeds references to supplemental media within the document data structure, rather than embedding the actual media files. The document database stores compact references that link to the supplemental media database, creating a nested structure where the document contains metadata pointers to external media resources. This reduces document file size while maintaining integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the actual supplemental media files from the document structure and stores them separately in a dedicated supplemental media database. Only lightweight references to these extracted media files are retained within the document data, significantly reducing storage requirements while preserving the ability to display media in context.
3Reliability
If secure access control is implemented for archived documents, then security is improved, but access speed and retrieval efficiency decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary authentication and authorization checks that are performed once during user login or document access initialization. Security credentials are verified in advance, and access permissions are cached or pre-established, allowing subsequent document retrievals to proceed without repeated security checks, thus maintaining security while improving access speed.
Data Source
AI summary
An archival computer system for receiving digital documents from document source computers, archiving such digital documents, and providing the digital documents to client computer systems. The archival computer system is provided with a document database, a supplemental digital media database, a document input device, an archival computer, and a server. The document input device receives digital documents from the document source computers. The digital documents include non-pixalated, non-rastered digital documents, and supplemental media. The archival computer receives the digital documents, and archives data from the non-pixalated, non-rastered digital documents in the document database, and data from the supplemental media in the supplemental digital media database. The server, upon request, outputs a composite document including data stored in the document database and the supplemental digital media database.