Syndication Manager Component Automates Content Distribution

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Solution Overview

Problem

The complexity of manual operations across multiple applications and devices in content syndication limits accessibility and usefulness, making it a tedious and confusing process for users.

Innovation Solution

An integrated application with a syndication manager component that automates and simplifies the syndication process by providing a syndication dialog and using a content delivery platform to manage and access syndicated content across multiple online platforms, allowing content producers to syndicate content without leaving the application context.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If manual operations are used across multiple applications and devices for content syndication, then content can be syndicated to multiple platforms, but the process becomes complex and difficult to use

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent syndication capabilityVSAvoiduser operation simplicity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple syndication operations into a single integrated application interface. Users can syndicate content to multiple platforms through one unified dialog rather than manually operating across multiple applications and devices, thereby maintaining versatility while dramatically improving ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The syndication manager component provides universal functionality that handles content distribution across multiple platforms through a single interface. This multi-functional approach allows one tool to perform what previously required multiple separate applications, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Ease of operation

If automated syndication is implemented, then ease of use improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser operation simplicityVSAvoidsystem architecture complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a syndication manager component as an intermediary that handles the complexity of automated syndication. This mediator component manages content distribution across multiple platforms automatically, shielding users from system complexity while providing automated functionality. The complexity is contained within the intermediary layer rather than being exposed to users.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If manual syndication operations are performed across multiple applications, then content distribution is achieved, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplatform distribution capabilityVSAvoidsyndication process duration

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The syndication manager component performs preliminary setup and configuration automatically, storing syndication parameters and platform connections in advance. When content needs to be syndicated, the pre-configured system immediately executes distribution without requiring users to manually set up each connection, thereby maintaining platform versatility while dramatically reducing time consumption.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

4Ease of operation

If integrated application is used for syndication, then ease of operation improves, but accessibility to multiple platforms may be limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesingle application operationVSAvoidplatform access capability

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The integrated application employs universal interface design that can connect to and manage multiple different content platforms through standardized protocols. The syndication manager component provides platform-agnostic functionality, allowing a single application to maintain ease of operation while preserving broad adaptability to access diverse online platforms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS10075546B2Techniques to automatically syndicate content over a network

Publication Date: 2018.09.11 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC

AI summary

Techniques to automatically syndicate content over a network are described. An apparatus may comprise a client computer having a processing system with a processor and computer-readable medium. The computer readable medium may store program instructions for a syndication manager component communicatively coupled to a content producing component arranged to be executed by the processor. The syndication manager component may be operative to receive syndication content from the content producing component, and provide a syndication dialog through the content producing component to syndicate the syndication content using a content delivery platform. The syndication manager component may also syndicate the syndication content to form a syndication resource accessible from the content delivery platform over a network using a syndication referent. Other embodiments are described and claimed.