Electronic Document Snapshot Commenting Workflow

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing electronic content editing processes are complex and error-prone due to the remote location of reviewers and editors, leading to lengthy and cumbersome workflows when managing and reviewing electronic content such as images, video, or audio across multiple participants.

Innovation Solution

A graphical user interface (GUI) based electronic content editing process that allows seamless review, commenting, and editing of electronic content through a client-server network, enabling efficient collaboration by associating comments and edits directly with selected portions of content, reducing the need for extensive explanations and facilitating real-time communication among reviewers and editors.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If electronic content is transported among reviewers or editors remotely, then collaboration can occur across different locations, but the process becomes lengthy and complex

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveremote collaboration capabilityVSAvoidreview process duration

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The review process is segmented into discrete tasks with assigned reviewers, allowing parallel processing of different content portions simultaneously rather than sequentially, thereby reducing total review time while maintaining remote collaboration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Reliability

If multiple reviewers or editors are involved in processing content, then comprehensive review coverage is improved, but managing the process becomes complex and error-prone

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvereview coverageVSAvoidprocess management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements automated feedback mechanisms where reviewers receive notifications about their assigned tasks, submit reviews through standardized interfaces, and receive automatic acknowledgment, reducing management complexity while ensuring comprehensive review coverage across multiple participants

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

Reviewers independently access and review assigned content through the system without requiring coordination management, allowing them to autonomously complete their review tasks at their own pace while maintaining overall process organization

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Loss of information

If extensive explanations are required for comments and edits, then communication clarity is improved, but the workflow becomes cumbersome

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication clarityVSAvoidworkflow efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates and attaches copies of the original content or specific portions to each comment, allowing reviewers to reference the exact context without requiring extensive explanatory text, thus maintaining clarity while simplifying the commenting process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS9292481B2Creating and modifying a snapshot of an electronic document with a user comment

Publication Date: 2016.03.22 ADOBE INC

AI summary

Briefly, one or more embodiments of a process, system, apparatus or article to edit electronic content is provided. Electronic content may be displayed in an application. A snapshot of a portion of the electronic content may be created. An edit and/or a comment may be received that provides context for the comment. A review that includes the snapshot and edit and/or comment may be published to one or more recipients. At least one of the one or more recipients may be configured to receive the review and display the review using a different application.