Web Product Demo Platform Recording Interactive Elements
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing web-based product demonstrations face challenges such as reliance on real-time execution, potential bugs, exposure of sensitive information, and unpredictable results, as well as the need for customization and authentic user interactions without affecting the actual product or requiring backend access.
Innovation Solution
A demo-generating platform that records interactive elements, including trigger events and layout changes, allowing for editing and replaying these elements to create a standalone demonstration that preserves client-side functionality, detached from the product's backend and client-side code, enabling customization and authentic user interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If real-time execution of web-based product is used for demonstration, then authentic user interactions are preserved, but reliability deteriorates due to potential bugs and unpredictable results
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a copy of the web-based product's user interface and records user interactions with it. Instead of executing the actual product code, the system captures screenshots, records user actions (clicks, hovers, etc.), and replays them in the demonstration. This copying approach eliminates bugs from the actual product while preserving the appearance and interaction flow of authentic usage.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by recording user interactions and layout changes before generating the demonstration. It captures screenshots, identifies interactive elements, and stores the sequence of user actions in advance. During demonstration playback, these pre-recorded interactions are replayed automatically, ensuring consistent and reliable results without needing to execute the actual product logic again.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If actual product code is executed for demonstration, then authentic functionality is demonstrated, but harmful factors increase due to exposure of sensitive information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the necessary visual and interaction elements from the actual product for demonstration purposes. It captures screenshots of the user interface and records user interactions, but deliberately excludes the actual product code, backend logic, and sensitive data. This extraction allows the demonstration to show authentic user experience while eliminating the risk of exposing sensitive information.
3Device complexity
If standalone demonstration is created detached from backend, then reliability improves by reducing bug exposure, but device complexity increases due to recording and replaying mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the demonstration system into distinct components: a recording module that captures user interactions and screenshots, a processing module that identifies interactive elements and generates markup, and a playback module that replays recorded interactions. This segmentation makes the complex system more manageable and maintainable, while each component contributes to the overall reliability by ensuring its specific function executes correctly without depending on the actual product backend.
4Manufacturing precision
If customization of demonstration is allowed, then adaptability improves for different clients, but manufacturing precision decreases due to editing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the demonstration system dynamic by allowing editors to modify recorded interactions and layout changes based on client requirements. The system stores interactions as editable data structures that can be adjusted without requiring complete re-recording. This dynamic editing capability enables customization for different clients while maintaining the core accuracy of the recorded user experience through structured modification options.
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AI summary
A method, product, and apparatus including: generating a demonstration of a web-based product by: recording interactive elements. An interactive element includes at least a trigger event and a layout change that results from the trigger event. The trigger event includes a user interaction with a page element of the web-based product. The demonstration is further generated by editing the interactive elements, thereby generating one or more edited interactive elements. Editing the interactive elements includes editing a feature of the interactive element. The demonstration is further generated by generating the demonstration based on the one or more edited interactive elements, and providing the demonstration to end devices. In response to identifying a user of an end device performing the user interaction with the page element, the demonstration is configured to automatically perform the layout change.