Dynamic Content Acquisition in Collaborative Tools

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current content creation tools are limited in their ability to acquire, manipulate, and handle dynamic electronic content, live content, and web content, particularly in collaborative environments, lacking efficient methods for accessing and processing HTML assets from remote servers.

Innovation Solution

A method is introduced that involves instantiating a software test framework to acquire HTML assets by establishing Docker bindings, creating a webdriver container, launching a browser within the container, and directing it to the HTML asset's URL, allowing for the capture of screenshots or transcoding of recordings, thereby enabling the handling of dynamic content within collaborative content creation tools.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional content creation tools are used to handle web content, then basic content creation functions are available, but the ability to acquire, manipulate, and handle dynamic content and live content is limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to handle dynamic contentVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a content acquisition module as an intermediary component between the content creation interface and remote web sources. This module acts as a mediator that automatically acquires HTML content, captures dynamic elements, and processes live content from specified URLs, thereby extending the functionality of traditional content creation tools without requiring users to directly manage the complexity of web content acquisition and manipulation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If content creation tools support multiple content formats, then versatility is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to increased complexity in acquiring and processing different content types

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent format supportVSAvoiduser operation simplicity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The content acquisition module operates autonomously to acquire and process multiple content formats including HTML, dynamic content, and live content from remote sources. The system automatically handles format conversion, content capture, and integration into the content creation interface without requiring users to manually configure complex acquisition parameters or understand different content type handling, thereby maintaining ease of operation while supporting versatile content formats

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS11882180B2Dynamic content and cloud based content within collaborative electronic content creation and management tools

Publication Date: 2024.01.23 DELTEK

AI summary

Systems and methods are described for collaborative work hypertext markup language assets. The assets may be stored on a remote server. The methods may include instantiating a portable software test framework between an application local to a user and the remote server in dependence upon a uniform resource locator associated with the HTML asset and a request to acquire the HTML asset in response to a request for an HTML asset.