Document Content Type Objects for Cross-Platform Reuse
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content management systems do not provide a straightforward mechanism to extract and reuse content across multiple document authoring platforms, as extracted content often loses its context and format compatibility, limiting its usability.
Innovation Solution
Systems and methods for converting documents into reusable content types by extracting content and metadata, identifying specific content types, and representing them as content type objects in a format common to multiple document authoring platforms, allowing for the preservation and reuse of resources like headers, footers, titles, and signatures across different platforms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content is extracted from documents using existing content management systems, then content can be retrieved, but the extracted content loses its context and format compatibility, limiting its usability across multiple document authoring platforms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a content type object as an intermediary layer between the original document and the target document authoring platform. This content type object serves as a mediator that preserves the original content's context, format, and metadata while enabling compatibility with multiple platforms. The content type object acts as a universal translator that converts document-specific formats into a standardized representation that can be consumed by various authoring tools without losing information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal content type object that can be used across multiple document authoring platforms (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email systems). Instead of creating platform-specific content representations, the system develops a single universal format that can be interpreted by different platforms, enabling one content object to serve multiple functions and platforms simultaneously.
2Productivity
If content is extracted and reused across different document authoring platforms, then content reusability is improved, but the complexity of managing format compatibility and context preservation increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the fundamental parameters of content representation by introducing a standardized content type object structure that includes specific fields for content data, format information, and metadata. This parameter standardization allows the system to automatically handle format compatibility without requiring complex manual conversion logic for each platform, thereby improving productivity while managing complexity through standardization.
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AI summary
Embodiments of systems and methods for the conversion of documents to reusable content types are disclosed herein. Embodiments may extract the content and metadata of the original document and identify a set of reusable resources from the content and metadata. These reusable resources can each be one of a set of content types common across a plurality of document authoring platforms. Each of the content types may be represented using a content type object associated with that content type. The reusable resources identified by the parsing of the content and metadata of the original document may thus be represented with corresponding reusable objects in a content type format common to a plurality of document authoring tools.