Automated Portal Theme Extraction from Reference Sites

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users without expertise in website development face challenges in creating portal sites that match the style and branding of existing organizational websites, requiring significant time or IT involvement, and ensuring compliance with legal assets such as privacy policies and trademarks.

Innovation Solution

A system that allows users to identify an existing organizational site as a thematic basis for a new portal site, using an analysis engine to analyze the site's representation based on user-defined analysis rules, incorporating stylistic and legal asset analyses to suggest potential themes that can be easily applied to the new site.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If non-technical users create portal sites independently, then user autonomy and productivity improve, but styling consistency and legal compliance deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveportal site creation speedVSAvoidstyling consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically copies stylistic elements (colors, fonts, layouts) and legal assets from the reference organizational site to the new portal site, ensuring consistency without requiring manual replication by users

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of the reference site to extract and organize stylistic elements and legal assets before the user begins creating the portal site, preparing all necessary components in advance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Device complexity

If non-technical users create portal sites independently, then IT involvement and device complexity reduce, but styling precision and legal compliance deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveIT involvementVSAvoidbranding accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables users to independently extract and apply stylistic elements and legal assets from the reference site through automated analysis, making the system self-sufficient without requiring IT expertise

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces manual mechanical processes of copying styles and identifying legal assets with automated computational analysis, substituting user effort with algorithmic processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Adaptability or versatility

If manual styling and legal asset incorporation are performed, then customization flexibility improves, but time consumption and productivity deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomization flexibilityVSAvoidportal site creation time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically copies and adapts stylistic elements from the reference site, providing pre-extracted customization options that maintain flexibility while eliminating manual extraction time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary extraction and organization of stylistic elements and legal assets, preparing customized options in advance before the user begins the actual portal site creation process

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS9262385B2Automatic retrieval of themes and other digital assets from an organizational website
Publication Date: 2016.02.16 SAP PORTALS ISRAEL
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AI summary

The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for determining one or more themes for a portal site. One example process includes operations for identifying a reference to an organizational site that is to be used as a thematic basis for a new portal site. The reference is used to identify a representation of the organizational site. The representation is analyzed based on an analysis rule set. At least one potential theme associated with the organizational site is determined, based on the analysis, and the at least one potential theme is presented to a user.