Pre-upload Content Organization for Cloud Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content storage systems lack the ability to allow users to customize the organizational structure of content items before uploading, leading to inefficient multistep processes, increased computational and storage loads, and potential upload errors due to inflexible web-based applications.
Innovation Solution
A system that generates a visual representation of the organizational structure for content items before uploading, allowing users to customize it, and enables seamless transmission and storage according to the defined structure, supporting both web-based and standalone applications for resumed uploads.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users wait until after upload to organize content items, then the system avoids pre-defining storage locations, but the user experience becomes inefficient and requires multiple steps
Solution Approach 1:
The system generates a visual representation of the organizational structure before the upload process begins, allowing users to customize folder arrangements and content item placements in advance. This preliminary organization setup eliminates the need for post-upload reorganization steps, directly reducing total time loss while improving ease of operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system allows user organization after upload, then flexibility is provided, but computational and storage loads increase due to multiple file management operations
Solution Approach 1:
Users customize the organizational structure before upload, allowing the system to pre-define storage locations for all content items. This eliminates the need for subsequent file management operations such as moving files between folders, creating folders, and updating hierarchies, thereby maintaining adaptability while significantly improving system efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The organization customization step is extracted from the post-upload process and performed separately before upload begins. This separation removes the computational burden of file management operations from the upload and post-upload phases, improving overall system productivity while preserving organizational flexibility.
3Ease of operation
If web-based applications are used for upload, then accessibility is improved, but upload sessions must be ended and errors occur with large data sets
Solution Approach 1:
The organizational structure is generated and customized before the upload process begins, allowing the system to prepare all storage locations and file arrangements in advance. This preliminary setup enables more reliable handling of large data sets by reducing the complexity of real-time decisions during upload, thereby improving upload accuracy while maintaining web-based accessibility.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for generating a customized organizational structure prior to uploading content items to a remote storage. For example, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed system identifies a set of content items to host on a remote storage and generates a visual representation of an organizational structure to be used for the content items at the remote storage. The system detects interactions modifying the organizational structure and provides the customized organizational structure to the remote storage prior to transmitting the content items. The system then transmits the set of content items to the remote storage in response to a transmission initiation event, and the remote storage stores the content items according to the customized organizational structure. In one or more embodiments, the system also allows the organizational structure and uploading of content items to be performed using different applications.