Integrated Development Environment for Educational Content Generation

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Solution Overview

Problem

In conventional web publishing systems, educational content requires manual coding for proper display, leading to delays and errors due to the need for multiple iterations of feedback and review, as well as the creation of non-compliant characters, build errors, and schema errors.

Innovation Solution

An integrated development environment allows content writers to create educational content objects through a customizable web publishing framework, guiding them through a step-by-step process, enabling automatic conversion and configuration for proper display, reducing delays and errors.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If manual coding is used for educational content display, then proper formatting and display can be achieved, but delays and errors occur due to multiple iterations of feedback and review

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent formatting precisionVSAvoidcontent creation time

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a visual content creation interface as an intermediary between the content writer and the final coded output. This interface allows writers to drag-and-drop components and visually configure content without directly writing code, while the system automatically generates the underlying code structure. This mediator eliminates the need for iterative feedback loops between writers and developers, resolving the contradiction between formatting precision and creation time.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables content writers to independently create and format educational content using the visual interface without requiring developer intervention for coding tasks. The automatic code generation feature allows the content creation system to serve itself by converting visual arrangements into production-ready code, eliminating time-consuming manual coding iterations while maintaining formatting precision.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of manufacture

If manual coding is used for educational content, then content can be created, but errors occur due to non-compliant characters, build errors, and schema errors

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent creation easeVSAvoidcontent build reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The visual content creation interface acts as a protective intermediary that prevents writers from introducing coding errors. By providing a constrained visual environment with pre-validating components and automatic code generation, the system eliminates sources of non-compliant characters and schema errors while maintaining ease of content creation. The automatic generation ensures code compliance without requiring writer expertise in coding standards.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements error prevention mechanisms beforehand by providing a visual interface that inherently prevents common coding errors. The drag-and-drop components and visual configuration options are designed to automatically generate valid code, cushioning against potential build errors, non-compliant characters, and schema violations before they can occur during the content creation process.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #11Beforehand cushioning (Prior cushioning)

3Productivity

If content writers create content independently without manual coding, then delays and errors are minimized, but proper formatting and display must be ensured

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent creation productivityVSAvoidcontent formatting precision

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The visual content creation interface enables writers to independently create properly formatted content without developer assistance. The system's automatic code generation feature ensures that independently created content maintains precise formatting and display requirements, resolving the contradiction between productivity and formatting precision by making the formatting process automatic rather than manual.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical process of manual coding with an automated system that translates visual arrangements into formatted code. This substitution maintains formatting precision through automatic code generation while dramatically improving productivity by eliminating manual coding steps. The system automatically handles the complex mechanics of code structure, indentation, and syntax while writers focus on content creation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS11281847B2Generating content objects using an integrated development environment

Publication Date: 2022.03.22 SALESFORCE INC

AI summary

Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods, and computer program products for generating content objects using an integrated development environment. In some implementations, an integrated development environment is displayed. A request to generate or update an educational content object can be processed, and a presentation including metadata selection options can be provided. After a selection of one of the metadata selection options is received, the presentation can be updated. A different request is received from a rich text editor provided in a new presentation, and the new presentation can be updated.