Local Interface Translating File Commands for Remote Content Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing content management systems face challenges in user adoption due to unfamiliar interfaces, poor performance in synchronization, and time-consuming file migrations from legacy storage systems.

Innovation Solution

A content management system interface that translates user file commands into content management commands and vice versa, allowing seamless integration with a remote content management system, mimicking a local drive for user familiarity and enabling efficient file migration.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a web-based interface is used to access remote content management systems, then users can access files remotely through browsers, but users are not familiar with such interfaces and resist learning them, causing underutilization

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveremote access capabilityVSAvoiduser familiarity with interface

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a local content management interface that acts as an intermediary between the user's familiar file explorer and the remote content management system. This local interface runs on the user's computer and provides a native file system interface, translating user actions into remote operations without requiring users to learn web-based interfaces.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If a file interface that mimics the native interface is provided, then users can access files through a familiar interface, but the interface is not similar enough for users to accept or synchronization performance is poor

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinterface familiarityVSAvoidinterface similarity and synchronization performance

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the content management functionality into a local interface component and a remote system component. The local interface handles user interactions with native file system operations, while the remote system manages actual file storage and synchronization. This segmentation allows the interface to be perfectly familiar to users while maintaining reliable synchronization through the remote connection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Adaptability or versatility

If files are migrated from legacy storage to remote content management systems, then centralized management is achieved, but the migration process is time consuming and demands large effort

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecentralized file managementVSAvoidmigration time and effort

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by setting up the local content management interface and configuration before actual file migration begins. The interface is prepared to handle file operations locally, and synchronization mechanisms are pre-configured, allowing files to be migrated incrementally as users access them rather than requiring bulk migration of all files at once.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11689604B2Interfacing with remote content management systems

Publication Date: 2023.06.27 SHINYDOCS

AI summary

A content management system interface at a local computer device configured to receive user file commands from a file manager and translate the user file commands into content management commands for sending to the remote content management system via a network interface. The content management system interface is further configured to receive remote file information from the remote content management system via the network interface and translate the remote file information into user file information for the file manager.