Real-time Web Co-authoring System with Conflict Resolution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing and updating web content across multiple sources and users is inefficient and time-consuming, requiring significant manpower and often resulting in haphazard collaboration among web content creators, developers, and reviewers.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for co-authoring web pages that allows multiple users to collaborate in real-time through a network system, with an application server communicating between computer devices to store, retrieve, and update internal and external content, resolving conflicts and integrating external sources dynamically.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple users collaborate on web page content creation through traditional methods, then content accuracy and completeness can be improved, but the time consumption and operational complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple users' editing operations into a single co-authoring session where all participants work on the same web page simultaneously. The system combines content creation, review, and approval functions into one unified interface, eliminating the need for sequential handoffs between creators, developers, and reviewers. This merging of functions allows multiple users to collaborate in real-time while maintaining content accuracy through built-in validation rules.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary layer that manages multiple users' inputs and coordinates their collaboration. This intermediary automatically handles conflict resolution, validates content against predefined rules, and ensures data consistency across different user contributions. The intermediary mechanism enables parallel collaboration without requiring manual coordination, thus reducing time consumption while maintaining reliability.
2Reliability
If web page content is updated frequently to reflect new information, then content currency is improved, but the complexity of managing multiple content sources increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides a universal co-authoring platform that handles multiple content sources and update operations through a single interface. This multi-functional system can ingest content from various sources, validate it against predefined rules, and publish updates across multiple web pages simultaneously. The universal approach eliminates the need for separate management systems for different content sources, reducing overall complexity while enabling frequent updates.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements dynamic content management where validation rules, content sources, and publication targets can be configured and modified without system reconfiguration. The co-authoring environment adapts to different content types and update frequencies automatically, allowing the system to handle both frequent minor updates and periodic major revisions with the same infrastructure, thereby reducing management complexity.
3Reliability
If manual review processes are used to ensure content accuracy, then content quality is improved, but the operational efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service content validation through automated rule-based checking that validates content as it is being created or edited. The co-authoring platform includes built-in validators that automatically check for accuracy, consistency, and compliance with predefined criteria, eliminating the need for separate manual review steps. This self-validating approach maintains high content quality while significantly improving operational efficiency by removing bottlenecks in the approval process.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides immediate feedback to users during the content creation process, automatically validating inputs against predefined rules and notifying users of any issues in real-time. This continuous feedback mechanism allows users to correct errors during authoring rather than during post-creation review, maintaining content quality while accelerating the overall process. The feedback loop eliminates the need for separate manual review cycles, thereby improving productivity.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer network system for posting content at a web site includes computer servers configured to host a web site for a group of users, and a data storage configured to store an email address in association with a destination at the website. The computer servers can receive an electronic message at the email address by the computer servers from a user. A computer processor can automatically extract content from the electronic message. The computer servers can automatically post the content extracted from the electronic message at the destination at the website.