Smart Table Assistance Framework for Unused Space Utilization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Tables often have unused space that is not utilized, leading to inefficiencies in data presentation and user interaction, particularly on devices with varying screen sizes, where the unused space can impact readability and usability.
Innovation Solution
A smart table assistance framework that identifies unused space in tables and provides context-specific guidance, such as illustrations, titles, and buttons, to help users navigate and utilize table features like adding or removing columns, sorting, filtering, and resizing, based on predefined conditions and user interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If the number of columns presented in the table is reduced or column widths are decreased to accommodate limited screen space, then the table can be displayed on devices with narrow displays, but unused space appears in the table area that is not utilized
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects unused space in the table area and populates it with contextually relevant information, guidance, or actions without requiring user intervention. The framework monitors table rendering and autonomously fills white space with helpful content based on the data context and user needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary framework that acts between the table data and the display area. This framework analyzes unused space and inserts appropriate content (guidance, actions, contextual information) to bridge the gap between available space and useful information presentation.
2Productivity
If smart guidance is added to utilize unused space, then user efficiency is improved through context-specific assistance, but the device complexity increases due to the need for detection and dynamic content insertion
Solution Approach 1:
The framework dynamically changes parameters such as the content, position, and type of guidance inserted into unused space based on contextual analysis. It adjusts the level and nature of assistance provided according to the specific table data, user interactions, and available space characteristics.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback loops where user interactions with the table and the resulting changes in unused space are continuously monitored. This feedback informs the framework's decisions about what guidance to insert next, creating an adaptive system that learns from user behavior.
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AI summary
An example method and system for providing smart assistance in unused table space. A smart table assistance framework identifies table information of a table being presented on a table area of a display device. The table information comprises a set of table functions offered by the table and a table size, where the table size includes a table width of the presented table and a total columns' width of columns presented in the table. The framework determines a size of free space available inside the table based on the table width and the total columns' width. The smart table assistance framework determines whether smart guidance preconditions have been met based on the set of table functions and the free space size. In response to determining that the preconditions have been met, a smart guidance of a set of smart guidances is added to the free space available inside the table.