Web Content Fusion Management with Dynamic Transparency Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current user interfaces for web-based content manipulation lack effective systems and methods for managing and interacting with advanced interactive content, particularly in displaying and managing products and services in a user-friendly and visually appealing manner.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising modules for content display, transparency control, mouse hover interactions, shopping cart management, product toggling, and fusion marking, which allows users to interact with visual representations of products and services by manipulating transparency, adding to carts, and managing product associations, enhancing user experience through intuitive interface elements and visual overlays.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If visual representations of products and services are displayed in close proximity to associated content portions, then user interaction and engagement are enhanced, but content visibility and readability may be obscured

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interactionVSAvoidcontent visibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts the transparency of visual representations based on user interaction. When a user hovers over or selects a content portion, the associated product visual representation transitions from opaque to transparent, allowing the content to remain visible while maintaining product information accessibility. This dynamic state change resolves the contradiction between enhancing user interaction and preserving content visibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The transparency parameter of visual representations is changed in response to user actions. The system modifies the alpha channel or opacity value of product images from a default state (e.g., 70% opaque) to an interactive state (e.g., 30% opaque or transparent) when triggered by user events such as hovering or clicking on content portions, thereby balancing product display prominence with content readability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Loss of information

If multiple products are displayed in overlapping fashion, then product information completeness is improved, but visual clutter and content obstruction increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduct information completenessVSAvoidvisual clutter
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs dynamic layering and z-index adjustments where only the currently selected or hovered product maintains full opacity and prominence, while other products in the overlapping set transition to lower opacity or are temporarily hidden. This dynamic reordering reduces visual clutter while preserving access to multiple product information sets through sequential interaction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Loss of information

If transparency of visual representations is increased, then content readability is improved, but product visual impact and prominence decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent readabilityVSAvoidproduct visual impact
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different transparency levels to different regions or states of the same visual representation. The product image maintains high opacity and visual impact in its default state, but transitions to a transparent state only in the specific context of user interaction with associated content, thereby preserving product prominence while enabling content readability when needed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS9891790B2Systems and methods for web-based product/content fusion management functions and user interaction therewith
Publication Date: 2018.02.13 JIANG HUBIN
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AI summary

A new system includes one or more computing devices having one or more processors and configured to execute modules. The modules include a content display module configured to respond to user requests to a remote network server by transmitting and displaying on a computing device content comprising text and/or graphics having content portions associated with products, and to transmit and display visual representations of the products in close proximity to the associated content portions, a transparency module, a mouse hover module, a shopping module, a product toggle module, a product list module, a fusion marking module, a fusion edit module, a product addition module, a new product registration module, a fusion deletion module, an unfusion module configured to remove the association between the product and/or service associated with a selected unfusion selector and the content portion associated with the fusion edit selector, and a fusion listing module.