Rich Content Toggling in Digital Documents

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing digital content systems are inflexible and often result in errors or broken content when displaying digital documents across different devices due to rigid content presentation schemes and lack of adaptive control.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of a rich content toggling system that provides intuitive options for managing the display of rich content within digital documents, including a toggle element for disabling rich content and a magnifier cursor for revealing hidden content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Stability of the object's composition

If rigid content presentation schemes are used to maintain consistent document format, then document structure is preserved, but compatibility and display reliability break on incompatible devices

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedocument format consistencyVSAvoidcontent display reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic content presentation by allowing the document format to adapt based on recipient device capabilities. The system transitions from static rigid formatting to dynamic formatting that adjusts rich content display according to device compatibility, network constraints, and user preferences, thereby maintaining both format consistency and display reliability across diverse platforms

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes presentation parameters of rich content based on recipient device characteristics. By modifying parameters such as content compression level, rich content inclusion, and formatting intensity according to device capabilities, the system preserves document structure while ensuring reliable display across incompatible devices

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Loss of information

If all rich content is displayed uniformly across all devices, then complete content is shown, but device constraints cause errors and broken content

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent completenessVSAvoiddisplay errors and broken content

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by allowing different portions of the document to have different presentation qualities based on device capabilities. Rich content is selectively displayed or suppressed in specific sections depending on recipient device constraints, network conditions, and user preferences, thereby maintaining content completeness while avoiding display errors on constrained devices

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments rich content into displayable and non-displayable portions based on recipient device characteristics. By dividing content into segments that can be selectively rendered, the system ensures complete information delivery while preventing broken content displays on devices with limited capabilities

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Reliability

If rich content is disabled to ensure compatibility, then display reliability improves, but content completeness and functionality are lost

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay compatibilityVSAvoidrich content availability

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism that mediates between rich content and recipient device display capabilities. This intermediary layer translates and adapts rich content based on device characteristics, allowing full content availability while ensuring reliable display by converting incompatible rich content into compatible formats or providing alternative representations

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

4Device complexity

If a single document format is used for all devices, then system simplicity is maintained, but adaptability to different device constraints is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesystem simplicityVSAvoiddevice compatibility adaptability

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements universality by creating a single document format that serves multiple device types through adaptive rendering. The system maintains one unified document structure that can be universally accessed while incorporating mechanisms to adapt rich content presentation based on recipient device capabilities, thereby achieving both system simplicity and broad device adaptability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12210823B2Toggling the display of rich content within a digital document

Publication Date: 2025.01.28 DROPBOX INC

AI summary

The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for controlling the display of rich digital content within a digital document. For instance, in some embodiments, the rich content toggling system provides a rich content toggle element for enabling and disabling display of rich content within a digital document, all while maintaining the data for the rich content as part of the digital document. In addition to the rich content toggle element, the rich content toggling system can provide more granular options for selecting or controlling which types of rich content items to display or not display within a digital document. In addition, the disclosed systems can provide a magnifier cursor that is moveable to scroll over the digital document to reveal hidden or removed rich content items that have been toggled off.