Dynamic Kit Design Gallery for Coordinated Product Selection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Online vendors face challenges in dynamically generating a gallery of coordinated designs for product kits, as not all products have matching designs available, making it difficult to present a cohesive look for bundled products.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that dynamically select and present only those designs for a kit configuration where all products in the kit have closely matching design elements, using a processor to determine 'kittable' designs from a set of available designs and create a design-coordinated gallery for user selection.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If all available designs are presented for kit configuration, then the variety of design options increases, but the coordination and matching quality of designs across products deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign option varietyVSAvoiddesign coordination quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically generates the gallery of available designs based on the specific kit configuration selected by the user. Rather than presenting a static list of all possible designs, the system adapts the gallery in real-time to show only those designs that are available for all products in the configured kit, ensuring design coordination while maintaining versatility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary filtering and determination of kittable designs before presenting the gallery to the user. By pre-processing the design availability data and identifying which designs are available across all kit products, the system eliminates the need for users to manually check design compatibility, thereby maintaining both variety and coordination quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Manufacturing precision

If design matching requirements are strictly enforced for kit configurations, then the design coordination quality improves, but the number of available kit options decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign coordination qualityVSAvoidkit configuration options
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically determines and filters the gallery of available designs based on kit configuration and design availability data, without requiring manual intervention. This self-service approach ensures that only coordinable designs are presented, maintaining high design coordination quality while preserving user freedom to choose from all valid kit configurations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides feedback to users about which designs are available for their selected kit configuration by dynamically generating a gallery that reflects actual design availability. This feedback mechanism guides users toward coordinable design choices without restricting their ability to explore different kit configurations, thereby maintaining both quality and versatility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Measurement precision

If manual verification of design availability is performed for each product in a kit, then the design coordination accuracy improves, but the system complexity and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign availability accuracyVSAvoidsystem processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges the design availability data from multiple products in the kit configuration into a single unified gallery of kittable designs. By combining and cross-referencing the available designs for all products simultaneously, the system achieves high design availability accuracy while avoiding the complexity of separate manual verification processes for each product.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a universal gallery structure that can serve any kit configuration by dynamically filtering based on the specific products selected. This multi-functional approach allows the same system to handle different kit compositions without requiring product-specific verification logic, thereby maintaining accuracy while reducing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS8676658B2Method and system for dynamically generating a gallery of available designs for kit configuration
Publication Date: 2014.03.18 CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
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AI summary

Methods, computer-readable storage media, and apparatuses for dynamically generating a gallery of available designs for a particular kit configuration including a plurality of different products are presented.