Dynamic Presentation Templates for Audience-Specific Asset Selection

Solution Overview

Problem

Organizations face challenges in efficiently managing and updating multiple versions of presentations for different audiences, leading to laborious manual changes and a risk of errors.

Innovation Solution

A dynamic presentation generation system that allows users to select a presentation template, which references a set of assets stored in a content storage. The system guides users through a guided assembly process, enabling them to dynamically translate the template into a customized presentation by selecting assets and providing just-in-time inputs.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple versions of presentations are manually updated to propagate changes across different audiences, then the presentations can be customized for different audiences, but the labor required increases and errors may occur

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepresentation customizationVSAvoidupdate efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The presentation system is segmented into a master template and multiple audience-specific versions. Changes made to the master template are automatically propagated to all derived versions, eliminating manual updates while maintaining customization through selective inclusion of audience-specific content blocks.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Audience-specific content blocks are pre-defined and tagged during template creation. When generating customized presentations, the system automatically selects and includes only the relevant pre-tagged content blocks for each audience, enabling efficient customization without manual intervention.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple versions of presentations are manually updated to propagate changes across different audiences, then the presentations can be customized for different audiences, but the risk of errors increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepresentation customizationVSAvoidupdate accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The presentation system is segmented into a master template and multiple audience-specific versions. Changes made to the master template are automatically propagated to all derived versions, eliminating manual updates while maintaining customization through selective inclusion of audience-specific content blocks.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements automatic version control and change tracking that provides feedback on what changes have been made to the master template and which derived versions need updating. This ensures consistent propagation of changes across all presentations without human error.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If version control is implemented to manage multiple presentation versions, then changes can be tracked, but the complexity of managing presentations increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveversion controlVSAvoidpresentation management

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges version control functionality directly into the presentation template structure. The master template and all derived versions are managed as a unified hierarchical structure, where version control is automatic and transparent to users, eliminating the need for separate version management processes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS20250292013A1Dynamic presentation generation

Publication Date: 2025.09.18 SEISMIC SOFTWARE INC

AI summary

Dynamic presentation generation is disclosed, including: receiving a selection of a presentation template, wherein the presentation template references a set of assets stored at a content storage; selecting a subset of the set of assets based at least in part on a set of user inputs; and dynamically generating a presentation using at least the presentation template, the subset of the set of assets, and the set of user inputs.