Interactive Controls for Shared Dynamic Objects
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing collaborative technologies require users to navigate between different applications and experiences, and static content is often copied and pasted, lacking real-time updating across multiple platforms.
Innovation Solution
The development of interactive user interface controls for sharable dynamic objects, allowing users to access, embed, and manage components across multiple host experiences with real-time updates, using distributed data structures and a shared object service.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users copy and paste static content between collaborative experiences, then content can be transferred between applications, but the content becomes static and cannot update in real-time across platforms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms static copied content into dynamic embedded components that automatically update across platforms. The component embedding interface allows inserting live-linked components that maintain real-time synchronization, replacing the static copy-paste model with a dynamic embedding model that preserves content freshness across collaborative experiences.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a shared object service as an intermediary layer between different collaborative experiences. This intermediary manages component registration, discovery, and embedding across platforms, enabling real-time updates without requiring direct integration between each application pair. The intermediary handles the complexity of maintaining synchronized state across distributed systems.
2Ease of operation
If users navigate between different collaborative experiences manually, then users can access different applications, but user efficiency and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-registering components with metadata describing their locations and characteristics before they are needed. The shared object service maintains an index of registered components across multiple collaborative experiences, enabling rapid discovery and access without requiring users to manually navigate through each application to locate components.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal component embedding interface that works across multiple different collaborative experiences and host applications. Users can access and embed components from any registered experience through a single standardized interface, eliminating the need to learn different navigation mechanisms for each application and significantly improving access speed.
3Adaptability or versatility
If components are embedded in multiple host experiences, then components become accessible across platforms, but managing component locations and versions becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The shared object service acts as a central intermediary that manages all component registration, location tracking, and version information across multiple host experiences. This intermediary abstracts away the complexity of tracking components through different platforms, providing a simplified API for registering and accessing components without requiring users to manually manage their distribution.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the component management function into separate concerns: component registration, location tracking, version management, and embedding operations. Each of these functions is handled by the shared object service independently, allowing complex cross-platform component distribution to be managed through modular, isolated operations rather than monolithic complexity.
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AI summary
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods, and devices for interacting with sharable dynamic objects are presented. A sharable dynamic object comprising a source file for a component may be accessed. A distributed data structure corresponding to the component may be generated. The component may be rendered in a host software application by processing the distributed data structure. An interactive control element may be rendered in the component, wherein the interactive control element comprises: a component location portion populated with identities of a plurality of distributed host experiences the component is included in, a component embedding portion populated with identities of a plurality of sharable objects that are selectable for automatically embedding the component in, and a copy component portion selectable for copying a link to the source file for the component.