Collaborative Content Capture With Standardized Data Objects

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems lack the ability to efficiently capture and present diverse content from various computing sources within a collaborative content interface, leading to inefficiencies and misrepresentation of content due to inconsistent data processing protocols and fragmented formats.

Innovation Solution

A collaborative content management system that generates and stores content objects in a uniform format within a collaborative content interface, allowing seamless integration and display of content from multiple sources without requiring users to navigate away, and supports various content types including text, images, and webpages.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If diverse content from various computing sources is captured and presented within a collaborative content interface, then content integration capability is improved, but data processing complexity increases due to inconsistent data processing protocols and fragmented formats

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent integration capabilityVSAvoiddata processing complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a content processing intermediary system that captures content from diverse external sources and transforms it into a standardized internal representation. This intermediary layer handles the complexity of inconsistent data protocols and fragmented formats, allowing the collaborative content interface to present unified content without users directly dealing with the processing complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically changes data parameters by converting content from various external formats into a standardized internal format. This parameter transformation process handles different data structures, encoding schemes, and protocol variations, enabling seamless integration of diverse content sources while maintaining consistent processing throughout the system.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If content is captured from external networked locations, then content source diversity is improved, but user navigation time increases as users may need to leave the collaborative interface to access source content

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent source diversityVSAvoiduser navigation time

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates copies of external content and embeds them within the collaborative content interface. Instead of requiring users to navigate away to access source content, the interface captures and displays content copies directly within the collaborative environment, maintaining content source diversity while eliminating navigation time losses.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges external content sources with the collaborative content interface by integrating content display and interaction capabilities directly into the interface. This combination allows users to access and interact with content from diverse sources without leaving the collaborative environment, effectively eliminating the need for separate navigation steps.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Stability of the object's composition

If content is processed and stored in uniform format, then data consistency is improved, but processing overhead increases due to format conversion requirements

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata consistencyVSAvoidprocessing efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary format conversion and standardization processing when content is first captured from external sources. By converting content to the uniform internal format at the point of capture rather than during subsequent operations, the system establishes data consistency upfront while minimizing processing overhead during content retrieval and display operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12381920B2Apparatuses, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products for generating content for presentation at a collaborative content interface based on a captured content source

Publication Date: 2025.08.05 ATLASSIAN US INC

AI summary

Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for generating content for presentation at a collaborative content interface based on a captured content source. In example embodiments, an apparatus receives a collaborative content generation request associated with a captured content source defined by one of a source collaborative content document and an external networked location, the collaborative content generation request being associated with a collaborative content document; generates a collaborative content data object associated with the collaborative content document based on a source content data object accessed at the captured content source; stores the collaborative content data object at a system repository such that a collaborative content document data structure defining the collaborative content document includes the collaborative content data object; and causes rendering of a collaborative content interface associated with the collaborative content document based on the collaborative content document data structure and the collaborative content data object.