User Interface Data Classification via Folder Structure Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current user interfaces lack the ability to effectively classify data according to user-defined preferences, leading to inefficiencies in information retrieval and productivity losses, as existing personalization features are limited and do not accommodate all user preferences.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that imports a user-defined folder structure to map data objects in a user interface, allowing users to reclassify data and regenerate the interface to display information based on their preferences, using a mapping tool to create user interface objects that represent the user-defined classification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If content classification is implemented to manage information complexity, then information organization is improved, but user complexity increases as users must learn the classification mechanism
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows users to define their own classification schemes using familiar folder structures from their file systems. Users import their personal folder hierarchies and map data to these structures, enabling self-service classification without requiring users to learn system-imposed classification mechanisms. This resolves the contradiction by shifting from system-defined to user-defined classification.
Solution Approach 2:
The system copies the user's existing folder structure from their file system into the data classification framework. Instead of creating a new classification system, it replicates the user's familiar organizational structure, eliminating the need to learn new classification rules while maintaining effective information organization.
2Adaptability or versatility
If personalization features are expanded to accommodate user preferences, then user satisfaction is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses universal folder structure concepts that exist in virtually all file systems and operating systems. By leveraging this existing universal structure for data classification, the system achieves high personalization capability without adding complex new interface elements. The same folder structure serves both file organization and data classification purposes simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of the system imposing its classification structure on users and offering limited personalization options, the system inverts the approach by allowing users to impose their own classification structures on the system data. This reversal enables extensive personalization while actually reducing interface complexity by reusing existing familiar structures.
3Productivity
If data is reorganized according to user preferences, then information accessibility is improved, but time consumption increases for users to configure the classification
Solution Approach 1:
Users perform the classification configuration action once by importing their folder structure and mapping data objects. This preliminary action establishes the personalized classification scheme that then automatically applies to all future data access and organization operations. The one-time configuration effort enables continuous productivity improvements without repeated time investment.
Solution Approach 2:
The system copies the user's existing folder structure definitions from their file system, eliminating the need for users to manually create classification categories from scratch. This copying approach reduces configuration time significantly while maintaining full personalization, as users leverage their already-established organizational patterns.
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AI summary
Disclosed are methods and systems for classifying data displayed in a user interface based on a user defined classification and generating the user interface to display the data based on the user defined classification. The method includes importing a folder structure from a folder structure container wherein the folder structure depicts a user defined classification of the data. The data displayed in the user interface is mapped to a folder in the folder structure and a user interface object in the user interface is created for the folder. Furthermore, the mapped data is presented in the user interface object.