Overlay Window for Digital Product Information Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Online media distribution sites face challenges in navigating and promoting digital media assets, as users find it cumbersome to locate specific media assets and need improved methods to streamline navigation and promotion.
Innovation Solution
Implementing dynamic graphical representations of digital products on a display screen, allowing for automatic cycling or user-controlled advancement, and providing an overlay window for quick access to detailed information without navigating to a new page, utilizing computer program code to manage and display these features.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple digital media assets are displayed on separate pages, then each asset can be presented in detail, but navigation becomes cumbersome and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple digital media asset representations and their detailed information into a single web page display. Multiple asset thumbnails are shown simultaneously in a grid layout, and selecting any thumbnail displays its detailed information in an overlay window without requiring navigation to a separate page, thus merging what would traditionally be distributed across multiple pages into one integrated view
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses an overlay window that appears above the current page to display detailed asset information. This adds a spatial dimension (layer) to the interface, allowing detailed information to be presented without replacing or navigating away from the thumbnail grid, effectively using a new dimensional space to resolve the conflict between showing multiple assets and providing detailed information
2Productivity
If digital media assets are prominently displayed to promote them, then visibility and promotion effectiveness increase, but navigation complexity and page clutter increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the display into two distinct functional areas: a grid of thumbnail representations for browsing multiple assets, and an overlay window for displaying detailed information about selected assets. This segmentation allows promotional assets to be prominently displayed in the thumbnail grid while keeping the interface organized and navigable, preventing clutter by separating browsing functionality from information display functionality
3Loss of information
If detailed information about a digital product is displayed on a new page, then complete information is available, but users must leave the current page and lose their browsing context
Solution Approach 1:
The patent prepares and displays all asset information representations in advance on the same page. When a user selects an asset thumbnail, the corresponding detailed information is already available and can be instantly displayed in the overlay window without requiring a page load or navigation action, thus performing the information retrieval action in advance and making it immediately accessible
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AI summary
Improved methods, systems, graphical user interfaces and computer program code for presenting representations or information concerning digital products are disclosed. The representations of digital products can serve to promote certain digital products at an online digital product distribution site. Information concerning a particular digital product can be rapidly accessible from a displayed page at an online digital product distribution site referencing a plurality of different digital products. According to one aspect, digital product information can be presented in an overlay window that can be initiated by a user and present relevant information concerning a digital product. Advantageously, digital product information can be quickly presented to a user without having to navigate to a new page of an online distribution site.