Electronic Montage System Tile Aggregation
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic montage systems face challenges in effectively aggregating and presenting diverse digital content in a meaningful way, especially as the amount of digital information increases, leading to difficulties in creating informative and user-friendly digital montages.
Innovation Solution
An electronic montage system that allows users to generate customized digital montages from heterogeneous data sources using a montage application with an authoring component to create presentation tiles and a presentation component to display content files, utilizing type definitions to extract and format content information into tile objects, enabling easy identification and selection of interested content for closer viewing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If the amount of digital information increases, then the quantity and diversity of content available for aggregation increases, but it becomes increasingly difficult to build a digital montage that provides meaningful information to a user
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments digital content into discrete, standardized units called 'tiles' that can be independently processed and aggregated. Each tile represents a specific piece of information from heterogeneous sources, allowing the montage system to manage large volumes of data through modular composition rather than handling raw content as a monolithic structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms heterogeneous digital content into a standardized parameter-based format where each tile contains structured attributes (data source, content type, metadata). This parameterization enables automated processing and aggregation of diverse information sources while maintaining meaning and context, reducing the complexity of building montages from varied digital content.
2Loss of information
If constituent web pages are organized according to a central theme, then the relevance and meaningfulness of the montage improves, but the space limitations of the composite web page require lower-fidelity representations
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements dynamic fidelity adjustment where tiles can be displayed in summarized form within the montage and expanded to full-fidelity views upon user selection. This allows the composite web page to maintain thematic organization with multiple high-quality content representations without being constrained by static space limitations, as the system dynamically loads and displays content at appropriate detail levels.
3Quantity of substance
If the composite web page includes multiple constituent web pages, then the comprehensiveness of information aggregation improves, but the space limitations require lower-fidelity representations that may lose detail
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs a nested structure where full-fidelity content representations are embedded within the montage framework. Each tile in the composite web page contains a reference to the complete source content, allowing users to access high-fidelity versions of any constituent web page without requiring all high-fidelity versions to be simultaneously displayed in the limited space of the composite page.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques for an electronic montage system are described. An apparatus may comprise a logic device arranged to execute a montage application comprising an authoring component operative to provide a presentation surface having multiple presentation tiles, receive control directives to associate content files with presentation tiles, generate tile objects for the content files based on content file types for the content files, and store the presentation surface and tile objects as a montage. Other embodiments are described and claimed.