Quoted Content Block Sync for Collaborative Document Editing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing document processing systems struggle to effectively manage multiple user operations while maintaining accuracy and consistency, particularly in collaborative online environments where content is quoted and edited across different documents.
Innovation Solution
A document processing method and apparatus that utilizes a selection area content block, which includes at least two content sub-blocks, allowing for synchronous content changes and updates across source and target documents, and employs a tree structure to manage parent-child relationships between nodes, facilitating unified editing operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If content blocks are managed individually in collaborative documents, then each content block can be edited independently, but maintaining consistency across source and target documents becomes complex and error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple content blocks into a unified selection area content block that spans both source and target documents. This unified block maintains internal structure while enabling synchronized editing across documents, reducing consistency management complexity while preserving independent editing capabilities within the selection area.
Solution Approach 2:
The selection area content block serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a unified editable region, maintains parent-child relationships between content blocks, enables synchronized updates across documents, and preserves the ability to edit individual content blocks. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction by integrating consistency management into the editing mechanism itself.
2Productivity
If multiple content blocks are edited simultaneously in collaborative documents, then user productivity improves, but maintaining accuracy and consistency across documents deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where editing operations on the selection area content block automatically trigger synchronized updates across source and target documents. The system monitors editing events and propagates changes through the document relationship network, ensuring consistency is maintained as a direct result of the editing action rather than through separate verification processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent establishes parent-child relationships and synchronization rules between content blocks before editing occurs. This preliminary structuring enables automatic consistency maintenance during simultaneous edits, as the framework for handling changes is already in place. The selection area content block is pre-configured to understand its relationships with other documents and content blocks.
3Adaptability or versatility
If content quoted from source document to target document is managed as separate blocks, then flexibility in editing is improved, but synchronization between documents becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a nested structure where content blocks are organized within a hierarchical framework of parent-child relationships. The selection area content block contains multiple content sub-blocks that maintain their individual identities and editing flexibility, while simultaneously being part of a larger synchronized structure. This nesting enables both flexible individual editing and automatic synchronization through the hierarchical relationship management.
Data Source
AI summary
Provided are a document processing method and apparatus, a device and a medium. The method includes that: an editing event of a user for a selection area content block within a selection area range of a current edited document is acquired, where the selection area content block includes at least two content sub-blocks, the selection area content block is content quoted from a source document to a target document, and the current edited document is the source document or the target document; and a synchronous content change is performed on a content block within the selection area range in the source document and a content block within the selection area range in the target document according to the editing event.