Mobile Document View Segmentation for Independent Content Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern communication systems face challenges in optimally viewing documents on smaller mobile device displays, where content such as tables and slides often extend beyond the viewing area, requiring constant resizing and scrolling, which can result in unreadable portions.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a gesture-enabled user interface that allows users to separately control and navigate different content portions within a document, such as textual content and tables, using swipe actions to move and resize elements independently without affecting other content, and displaying content in a split-screen format to ensure optimal viewability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the user resizes a portion of the document (such as a table) to optimally view it on the user interface, then the viewability of that portion is improved, but the entire document is resized causing certain portions to extend outside of the viewing window and become unreadable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the document into separate controllable portions (e.g., tables, text content, slides) that can be independently resized and positioned. This segmentation allows each element to be optimized for viewing without forcing the entire document to resize, thus preventing content from extending outside the viewing window while maintaining optimal visibility of each segment.
2Ease of operation
If the document is displayed to fit the smaller mobile device screen, then all content fits within the viewing area, but the content becomes difficult to read due to small size
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allowing different portions of the document to have different sizes and scaling factors. Important elements like tables can be enlarged to optimal viewing size while text content maintains appropriate scaling, ensuring both accessibility and readability are maintained simultaneously through differentiated local optimization.
3Loss of information
If the user scrolls through the document to view all content, then all content becomes accessible, but the user experience deteriorates due to constant scrolling and resizing operations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic control where document portions can be independently adjusted in size and position based on user needs. This dynamic adjustment eliminates the need for constant scrolling and resizing, as each element can be optimally sized and positioned once, then maintained at that configuration, significantly reducing navigation time and improving user experience.
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AI summary
Portions of document contents are separated into individually controlled sections on a user interface of a smaller size client device display. A document viewed on a mobile device may include different content portions such as textual content, tables, slides and graphics. Due to a smaller user interface of the mobile device, some portions of the content may extend outside of the user interface and may not all be visible at the same time. The user may use gestures to scroll through and resize the document to view all of the contents. The system may separate each of the different content portions into individual sections and enable the user to control each section separately, such that the user may navigate, resize, and reposition each individual section without affecting the size and position of the remaining sections of the document for optimally viewing the document on the user interface.