Hierarchical Content Archiving for Faster Search and Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Content collaboration systems face inefficiencies due to outdated and infrequently accessed content items being actively maintained, leading to performance issues like slow searching and navigation, and users struggle to manage and locate archived content effectively.
Innovation Solution
A content collaboration system with archiving and unarchiving functionalities that organize content items in a hierarchical structure, allowing users to assign an archived status, update hierarchical relationships, and display archived content differently based on user permissions, while providing tools for bulk management and automation rules to suggest and execute archiving actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If all content items are actively maintained and displayed in the system, then users can access all content through search and navigation, but system performance deteriorates due to slow searching and navigation caused by outdated and infrequently accessed content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments content items into two distinct categories: active content and archived content. Active content remains in the main content collaboration system with full accessibility, while archived content is moved to a separate archival storage system. This segmentation allows the main system to maintain high performance by excluding outdated content, while archived content remains preservable and retrievable when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts outdated and infrequently accessed content items from the active content collaboration system and moves them to a separate archival storage system. This extraction removes the harmful factor (outdated content) from the main system, improving search and navigation speed, while preserving the content in an accessible archival location for future retrieval.
2Speed
If outdated content is removed from active display, then search and navigation speed improves, but users lose access to archived content in the main interface
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary archival storage system that bridges the gap between active content and archived content. Users can access archived content through dedicated archival interfaces and retrieval mechanisms, ensuring that removing content from the main system does not eliminate access but rather relocates it to a specialized access pathway.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a new dimensional space for archived content access by implementing separate archival interfaces and retrieval mechanisms. Instead of trying to maintain archived content within the traditional content display dimension, the system establishes a parallel access dimension specifically for archived content, allowing users to navigate and retrieve archived items through dedicated pathways.
3Productivity
If content items are archived, then actively managed content decreases improving system performance, but managing and locating archived content becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by establishing automated archiving rules and hierarchical organization structures before content needs to be retrieved. Content is organized into logical hierarchies and categories during the archiving process, making future retrieval more efficient. The system proactively manages archived content through automated rules rather than requiring manual organization when retrieval is needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms that track content access patterns and usage. This feedback information is used to optimize the archiving and retrieval process, allowing the system to learn from user behavior and improve the organization and accessibility of archived content over time. The feedback loop helps refine archiving rules and retrieval mechanisms based on actual usage data.
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AI summary
Embodiments include a content collaboration system that can be configured to display a hierarchical document tree that includes graphical objects corresponding to content items hosted by the content collaboration system. The collaboration system can receive a selection of a graphical object corresponding to a content item for archiving, and in response, generate a first updated hierarchical relationship that includes the archived content item and generate a second updated hierarchical relationship that excludes the archived content item. The collaboration system can construct a first hierarchical document tree instance based on the first updated hierarchical relationship for displaying the graphical objects for the first user account and construct a second hierarchical document tree instance based on the second updated hierarchical relationship for displaying the graphical objects for a second user account.