Document Quality Agent and Repair Tool for Formatting Compliance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional document formatting techniques lack consistency and fail to ensure quality, often embedding unnecessary resources, missing references, and lacking the ability to repair formatting issues, which affects user perception and commercial success.

Innovation Solution

A system and process for analyzing and repairing documents, including a quality agent and repair tool that evaluate documents against standards, identify issues, and modify parameters to improve compliance and accessibility, presented through a user interface that provides reporting and repair functionalities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional document formatting techniques are used, then documents can be created and displayed, but consistency in document display is lacking and quality cannot be ensured

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedocument quality consistencyVSAvoidformatting precision
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a quality agent that continuously monitors and evaluates document formatting compliance, providing feedback mechanisms that identify discrepancies between actual document formatting and required standards. This feedback loop enables automatic detection and reporting of formatting issues, thereby improving document quality consistency while maintaining formatting precision through corrective actions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs automatic evaluation and repair capabilities where the quality agent independently assesses document compliance and the repair tool automatically corrects formatting issues without requiring manual intervention. This self-service approach ensures consistent document quality and precise formatting adherence while reducing human effort in quality assurance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Loss of energy

If conventional document creation methods are used, then documents can be generated, but unnecessary resources are embedded and file size increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefile size efficiencyVSAvoidembedded resources
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The quality agent evaluates document resources and identifies unnecessary embedded fonts, images, and other resources that do not contribute to document functionality. The repair tool then extracts and removes these redundant resources from the document, reducing file size and improving efficiency while maintaining the essential document content and formatting.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically discards unnecessary embedded resources identified through quality evaluation and recovers storage space. The repair tool selectively removes redundant fonts, images, and other resources that are not referenced or needed in the document, thereby optimizing file size without compromising document integrity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #34Discarding and recovering

3Ease of repair

If conventional document formatting is used, then documents can be displayed, but formatting discrepancies with standards cannot be detected or repaired

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveformatting issue repairabilityVSAvoidformatting compliance detection
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of repairVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The quality agent provides continuous feedback by evaluating document formatting against established standards and identifying specific discrepancies. This feedback mechanism enables easy detection of compliance issues and guides the repair tool in automatically correcting formatting problems, thereby improving repairability while simplifying the detection of formatting non-compliance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements self-service capabilities where the quality agent automatically detects formatting discrepancies and the repair tool independently corrects them without requiring external quality assurance processes. This automated detection and repair mechanism makes formatting issue identification and correction straightforward and efficient.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

4Reliability

If conventional document creation applications are used, then documents can be generated, but user perception of quality is affected and commercial success is compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser perception of qualityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The quality agent and repair tool are designed as universal components that can be integrated into various document creation and management systems. This multi-functional approach improves user perception of quality across different document types and applications while avoiding the need for separate complex quality assurance systems for each application.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS9276758B2Analyzing and repairing documents
Publication Date: 2016.03.01 ADOBE INC
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AI summary

Techniques for analyzing and repairing documents are described, including evaluating a document at a first location using a first application, the document comprising one or more parameters and being formatted using a document standard, identifying a problem associated with the document by comparing the one or more parameters to the document standard, presenting a status associated with the document, wherein the status is associated with the one or more parameters, and repairing the problem a second location using a second application by modifying at least one of the one or more parameters associated with the document.