Document Context Overlay for Cross-Section Editing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in navigating and manipulating large documents due to limitations in screen real estate, making it time-consuming and error-prone to cut or copy data from one page and paste it into another within the same document.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that displays an active primary context on a UI, allowing users to access and temporarily activate secondary contexts through a pop-up view, enabling efficient editing operations across multiple document sections without leaving the primary context.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users navigate large documents by scrolling and jumping between pages to perform editing operations, then they can access different document sections, but the operation becomes time-consuming and error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a pop-up access view that displays secondary contexts (other pages) in a dimensional overlay above the primary context. This allows users to access multiple document sections simultaneously in a vertical dimension rather than sequentially scrolling through horizontal pages, dramatically reducing navigation time while maintaining operational ease.
Solution Approach 2:
The document is segmented into multiple contexts (pages) that can be independently accessed. The pop-up access view presents these segmented contexts as discrete, selectable thumbnails, allowing users to quickly jump between segments without navigating through the entire document sequence, thus reducing editing time while maintaining ease of operation.
2Measurement precision
If users maintain a narrow view for detailed editing, then they can make precise changes, but they lose the broad context of the whole document structure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent overlays the pop-up access view containing thumbnails of other pages in a vertical dimension above the primary editing context. This allows users to maintain a narrow, focused view for precise editing while simultaneously accessing broad contextual information about the entire document structure in the overlay, preventing loss of context awareness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a nested view structure where the pop-up access view (containing overview information) is nested above the primary context (detailed editing area). This nested arrangement allows users to access both broad document context and detailed editing precision simultaneously, with the smaller access view contained within the larger workspace area.
3Reliability
If users scroll through entire documents to locate target sections, then they can find the correct location, but the process becomes lengthy and memory-intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent pre-generates and displays thumbnails of all secondary contexts (pages) in the pop-up access view before the user needs to navigate to them. This preliminary action of preparing the access view with all possible destinations allows users to immediately locate and jump to target sections without scrolling through the entire document, reducing both time and memory requirements while maintaining accurate location finding.
4Productivity
If users switch between multiple document pages, then they can perform editing operations across sections, but they must return to original pages manually
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback by automatically detecting when the user completes an editing operation (such as pasting content) and automatically closing the pop-up access view. This feedback mechanism eliminates the need for users to manually navigate back to original pages, as the system automatically returns them to the primary context, improving both productivity and ease of operation.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer-implementable method, system and computer-readable medium for providing in-context total document views for manipulating data are presented. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of: displaying an active context of a software program on a User Interface (UI); receiving a copy command for a copied element from the active context; in response to a control signal, displaying an access view of one or more secondary contexts of the software program; temporarily activating a selected context from the secondary contexts shown in the access view while continuing to display the active context on the UI; and pasting the copied element into the selected context. Preferably, in response to the copied element being pasted into the selected secondary context, the access view is automatically removed from the UI.