Document Display System Bundling Files to Reduce Download Delays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cloud service systems face delays in displaying complex forms on Web browsers due to the need to download multiple files simultaneously, which is inefficient and costly to implement across various tablet terminals.
Innovation Solution
Combining multiple files forming a form into a single file, decompressing, and displaying it on a Web browser, utilizing a server that archives document data hierarchically and includes a downloading unit, browser unit, and readout unit to streamline the file access and display process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple files forming a form are downloaded simultaneously from a cloud service, then the form can be displayed with complete content, but the download time increases and user waiting time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple form-related files (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images) into a single bundled file that is downloaded as one unit. This merging approach maintains complete form content while significantly reducing download time by eliminating the need for parallel downloads of multiple files.
Solution Approach 2:
The form files are pre-bundled and compressed into a single archive file before being uploaded to the cloud service. This preliminary packaging action allows the client to download everything needed in one operation, avoiding the time loss of multiple sequential or parallel downloads.
2Loss of time
If a client-side helper application is used to restore and display combined files, then file download delay is prevented, but development cost increases due to need for helper application across multiple tablet terminal types
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables the Web browser itself to perform the restoration and display functions that would otherwise require a separate helper application. The browser natively handles the decompression and rendering of the bundled form files, eliminating the need for additional client software and reducing development costs across different tablet terminals.
Solution Approach 2:
The solution leverages the universal capabilities of modern Web browsers to handle multiple file formats and compression types. Instead of developing specialized helper applications for each tablet terminal type, the browser's multi-functional support allows a single bundled file format to work across diverse devices.
3Adaptability or versatility
If complex forms with many fonts, images, and graphs are designed beautifully, then the form becomes expressive and functional, but the number of files increases requiring more parallel downloads
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges all form components including multiple fonts, images, graphs, HTML structures, and CSS styles into a single bundled file. This consolidation maintains the complete expressiveness and versatility of complex forms while reducing the file structure complexity from multiple separate files to one unified file that downloads in a single operation.
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing apparatus is provided that is connected to a server that archives document data hierarchically formed by a plurality of files and stores the document data as a single file, comprising: a downloading unit configured to download the archived document data from the server, decompressing the archived document data, and storing a file forming a lower layer of the document data in a storage unit; a browser unit configured to access an access destination of the file forming the lower layer which is described in an upper layer file of the document data; and a readout unit configured to read out the file forming the lower layer by hooking the access and returning the read out file to the browser unit instead of the server, wherein the browser unit displays the document data based on the read out file.