Virtual Board Content Management for Collaborative Events
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional collaborative events face challenges in managing virtual content across diverse and non-traditional locations, as existing solutions lack the ability to seamlessly transition and integrate virtual boards and posts across different settings and user interactions.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that allows users to select and create virtual boards, post content, and manage virtual posts using a content visualizer, which utilizes position controllers and action controllers to mimic physical interactions, enabling virtual post creation, retrieval, and deletion on a virtual board, regardless of location, through a network-connected device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional collaborative events are held in fixed conference rooms with physical boards, then content management is straightforward and reliable, but the system lacks adaptability to non-traditional locations and mobile collaboration scenarios
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual copies of physical boards and posts in a digital environment. Virtual boards replicate the functionality of physical whiteboards, and virtual posts replicate physical sticky notes or written content, allowing the same collaboration activities to occur in non-traditional locations through mobile devices or remote access interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual board system is designed to function across multiple platforms and locations. The same virtual board can be accessed from conference rooms, coffee shops, or remote locations, and the system supports both in-person and remote participants simultaneously, making it universally applicable to diverse collaboration scenarios.
2Adaptability or versatility
If virtual content is accessed from multiple locations and devices, then adaptability and accessibility are improved, but maintaining content continuity and organization becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously synchronizes virtual post positions and board states across all accessing devices. When a user moves or creates content on a virtual board from one location, the system detects this change and automatically updates the content position and organization state across all other devices and locations, maintaining consistency through real-time feedback loops.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-establishes a centralized virtual board structure with defined organizational frameworks before collaboration begins. Virtual posts are placed in predetermined zones or categories, and the system maintains these organizational structures across all access points, ensuring content remains organized regardless of which location or device is being used.
3Ease of operation
If physical interactions with boards are mimicked in a virtual environment, then ease of operation is improved, but the system requires sophisticated position and action controllers increasing complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces physical mechanical interactions with their virtual equivalents. Instead of physically moving hands to place sticky notes on a whiteboard, users interact through digital interfaces that replicate these motions. Touch screens, click-and-drag operations, and gesture controls substitute for physical manipulation, maintaining the intuitive nature of board interactions while eliminating the need for physical presence.
Data Source
AI summary
A method includes receiving a first virtual board selection from a first user, wherein a first virtual board allows for one or more users to create one or more virtual posts during a current collaboration event. The method displays the first virtual board and a first set of previously created virtual posts in the first virtual board, wherein the first set of previously created virtual posts is associated with a previous collaboration event. The method displays two or more templates for creating a new virtual post. The method receives content to populate the first template, wherein the populated first template represents a first virtual post of a second set of virtual posts for the current collaboration event. The method displays the first virtual post on the first virtual board based on a first position of an electronic device associated with the first user relative to the first virtual board.