Software Feature Integration for Rapid Prototyping

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Solution Overview

Problem

The conventional software development process is inefficient and prone to deficiencies in efficiency, pricing, and consistency due to the complexity of integrating source code development and user interface design, often resulting in prolonged project timelines and increased costs.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that provide a graphical user interface for selecting features from a library, automatically integrating selected features based on attributes and inter-feature rules to generate an interactive prototype, allowing for the generation of source code and enabling users to interactively visualize and refine the software application without requiring extensive designer involvement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional software development process is used with separate designers and developers, then customization capability is improved, but development time and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecustomization capabilityVSAvoiddevelopment process complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges user interface design and source code development into a single integrated process. Users can directly manipulate visual interface elements and the system automatically generates corresponding source code, eliminating the need for separate designers and developers to work in isolation and then integrate their work.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides a universal platform that handles both design and development functions. The same interface that allows users to design visual elements also serves as the development environment, where the system automatically translates design decisions into executable code across multiple programming languages and platforms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If conventional software development process is used with multiple stages, then software quality is improved, but project timeline extends

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesoftware qualityVSAvoidproject timeline

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically generating source code during the design phase itself. Instead of waiting for a separate development phase, the code generation happens in real-time as users design the interface, allowing for immediate validation and reducing rework later in the project.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system maintains continuous useful action throughout the development process. As users continuously design and modify interface elements, the system continuously updates and generates corresponding code, eliminating idle time between design iterations and code generation that characterizes conventional multi-stage processes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

3Manufacturing precision

If extensive designer involvement is used in conventional development, then user interface quality is improved, but development cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser interface qualityVSAvoiddevelopment cost

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service by allowing users to directly create and modify user interfaces without requiring extensive designer involvement. Users can manipulate visual elements and the system automatically handles the complex task of generating consistent source code, providing professional-quality interfaces while reducing dependency on expensive designer resources.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

4Adaptability or versatility

If custom software is developed from scratch, then software functionality is improved, but development time increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesoftware functionalityVSAvoiddevelopment speed

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary code generation during the design phase, creating a functional baseline that can be immediately tested and validated. This preliminary code serves as a foundation that can be quickly refined rather than built from scratch, significantly accelerating the development of custom functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11720330B2Application development involving instant protoyping

Publication Date: 2023.08.08 ENGINEER AI CORP

AI summary

A system for developing software provides a graphical user interface on a display of a client device, the graphical user interface displaying features from a library of features for a custom software application, implements simulations of a plurality of the features available for demonstration through the graphical user interface, stores blocks of source code for each feature in a source code repository wherein the blocks are adapted to provide an actual application when compiled by developers, receives from the client device, by a server running a software building component, one or more selected features for the software application, automatically integrates, by the software building component, the one or more selected features to generate an integrated feature set based on attributes of each of the selected features and an inter-feature rules set, and generates an interactive visualization of a navigable prototype of the software application based on the integrated feature set.