Remote Content Rendering in Hierarchical Document Collaboration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content collaboration systems struggle to integrate and manage content from external platforms that use non-compatible formats, limiting the ability to create, edit, and manipulate documents seamlessly across different platforms.
Innovation Solution
A content collaboration system that includes a graphical user interface with a hierarchical element tree and content processing engines to convert and display content from external platforms into a platform-specific structured data format, allowing seamless integration and manipulation of remote content within the system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content from external platforms is integrated into the content collaboration system, then the system's adaptability and versatility are improved, but the device complexity increases due to the need for multiple content processing engines and format conversion mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces content processing engines as intermediary components that mediate between external platforms with non-compatible formats and the content collaboration system. These engines convert external content into the system's native structured data format, enabling integration without direct complex interactions between the system and diverse external platforms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the format parameter of external content by converting it from various external formats into a unified platform-specific structured data format. This parameter transformation allows content from different sources to be standardized and managed within the collaboration system.
2Ease of operation
If content processing engines are used to convert external content formats, then the ease of operation is improved by enabling seamless document creation and editing, but the use of energy increases due to processing and conversion operations
Solution Approach 1:
The content processing engines perform format conversion and content standardization in advance, before the content is fully integrated into the collaboration system. This preliminary processing prepares the content for seamless operation, reducing the need for repeated processing during subsequent editing and collaboration activities.
3Ease of operation
If hierarchical organization of content is implemented, then the ease of operation is improved for content management, but the device complexity increases due to the hierarchical element tree structure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments content into hierarchical elements organized in a tree structure, where content is divided into parent and child elements. This segmentation allows for systematic management and navigation of content, making it easier to organize, locate, and manipulate specific content portions within the collaboration system.
Data Source
AI summary
A method may include causing a client computer to display a graphical user interface including a hierarchical element tree, the hierarchical element tree including a plurality of hierarchically arranged selectable elements. The method may further include, in response to receiving a selection of a selectable element in the hierarchical element tree and in accordance with the selected selectable element being associated with a remote content item that is managed by an external platform separate from the content collaboration system, selecting a content processing engine, retrieving content from the remote content item at the external platform and using an address associated with the remote content item, processing the content from the remote content item using the selected processing engine to produce renderable content, the renderable content formatted in accordance with the platform-specific structured data format, and causing display of the renderable content in the content panel.