Radial Modular Interface for Dynamic Digital Content Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital content management systems are inconvenient and inflexible, often requiring unnatural commands to navigate and overlap content, making it difficult for users to access relevant information simultaneously.
Innovation Solution
A modular interface system where principal and derived digital modules overlap and expand along specific paths, allowing for dynamic accessibility of digital contents based on user interaction and configuration parameters, enabling selective and optimized access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If multiple information contents are shown in frames/windows that are overlapped sequentially, then the system can display multiple contents, but the user cannot view contents simultaneously and requires specific commands to navigate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from traditional sequential window overlap (2D plane arrangement) to a radial menu structure where contents are organized in concentric circles around a central point. This dimensional reorganization allows multiple contents to be simultaneously accessible through radial navigation, eliminating the need for sequential clicking and enabling parallel viewing of multiple content levels.
Solution Approach 2:
The radial menu structure is designed to be dynamic and interactive, responding to user gestures (such as rotational movements) to expand and collapse different levels of content. This dynamic behavior allows the interface to adapt to user needs in real-time, providing simultaneous access to multiple contents while maintaining ease of navigation through natural motion-based control.
2Stability of the object's composition
If a traditional menu structure with links is used, then the system provides organized navigation, but the interactivity and flexibility for users are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic radial menu where the organizational structure remains stable (concentric circles maintaining hierarchical relationships) while the interaction method is highly flexible. Users can interact through various gestures including rotation, expansion, and collapse operations, allowing the same structured menu to adapt to different user preferences and tasks without losing its organized composition.
Solution Approach 2:
The radial menu structure serves multiple functions simultaneously: it maintains hierarchical organization like traditional menus, provides expanded interaction possibilities through radial gestures, enables simultaneous viewing of multiple content levels, and adapts to different user inputs. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction between structural stability and interaction versatility.
3Quantity of substance
If existing content management systems are used, then information can be displayed, but the interface lacks simplicity and user-friendliness
Solution Approach 1:
By organizing content in a radial layout rather than linear or grid-based arrangements, the patent creates a more intuitive spatial relationship between related contents. Users can perceive hierarchical and associative relationships through radial distance and angular position, making information display more comprehensible and the interface simpler to navigate while maintaining the ability to display multiple information types.
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AI summary
The invention discloses an improved method and system for dynamic management of viewable digital contents (CD_ij), in which arranging a modular interface (11) comprising principal digital modules (Pi) and derived digital modules (Dij) extending prevalently in a first direction (d1); translating at least one of the principal digital modules (Pi) along a first path (t1) so that the principal digital modules (Pi) overlap at least partially; expanding the principal digital modules (Pi) along a second path (t2); selecting a viewable digital content; expanding the selected viewable digital content (CD_ij) along a third path (t3), determining at least a first derived digital module (Dij), in which translating at least one of the principal digital modules (Pi) along the first path (t1), expanding the principal digital modules (Pi) along the second path (t2) and expanding the selected viewable digital content (CD_ij) along the third path (t3) determine selective dynamic accessibility to the viewable digital contents (CD_ij) on the modular interface (11). The invention also discloses a modular interface (11) for dynamic management of the viewable digital contents (CD_ij).