Editing electronic documents

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11042691-B2
Application number	US-201916691656-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 22, 2019
Priority date	Oct 29, 2009
Publication date	Jun 22, 2021
Grant date	Jun 22, 2021

Abstract

A theme to be applied to a document to be edited can be identified. The document and a preview of one or more components insertable into the document can be displayed. The preview can be formed and presented prior to the insertion of at least one of the components by applying the identified theme to the components.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories and one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices;
program instructions, stored on the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by the one or more processors via the one or more computer-readable memories, to identify a theme for application into a document;
program instructions, stored on the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by the one or more processors via the one or more computer-readable memories, to determine a set of attribute parameters associated with the identified theme;
program instructions, stored on the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by the one or more processors via the one or more computer-readable memories, to apply the identified theme to a set of image files insertable into the document by converting the set of image files according to one or more attribute parameters of the set of attribute parameters;
program instructions, stored on the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by the one or more processors via the one or more computer-readable memories, to display the document and a preview of the set of converted image files;
program instructions, stored on the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by the one or more processors via the one or more computer-readable memories, to allow the user to select some attribute parameters of the set of attribute parameters to be applied to the document, wherein a preview of image files to which some of the selected attribute parameters have been applied is displayed;
program instructions, stored on the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by the one or more processors via the one or more computer-readable memories, to set a sub-parameter for the identified theme;
program instructions, stored on the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by the one or more processors via the one or more computer-readable memories, to apply the sub-parameter to the set of image files to be inserted into the document and create the preview of the set of applied image files which includes the set of image files to be inserted into the document; and
program instructions, stored on the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by the one or more processors via the one or more computer-readable memories, to edit a page interactively of the document using the preview of the set of applied image files by inserting an image file of the set of image files into the document.

2. The system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
program instructions, stored on the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by the one or more processors via the one or more computer-readable memories, to set a degree to which the identified theme is to be applied to the one or more image files to be inserted into the document, wherein the preview is formed such that a user is able to select one or more image files from the preview of the set of converted image files for insertion into the document; and
program instructions, stored on the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by the one or more processors via the one or more computer-readable memories, to display the material view by clicking a tab in the document.

3. The system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
program instructions, stored on the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by the one or more processors via the one or more computer-readable memories, to accept a selection of a position at which an image file of the set of image files is inserted into the document, wherein the set of attribute parameters is determined depending on the selected position to display a preview of the image file to which at least some of the determined set of attribute parameters have been applied; and
program instructions, stored on the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by the one or more processors via the one or more computer-readable memories, to browse a material explorer from the set of image files to be inserted into the document stored in each directory of a material data storage.

4. The system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
program instructions, stored on the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by the one or more processors via the one or more computer-readable memories, to insert into the document the image files to which some of the selected attribute parameters have been applied.

5. The system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
program instructions, stored on the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by the one or more processors via the one or more computer-readable memories, to apply the identified theme to at least one of the image files in response to a predetermined user action and inserting the image files into the document.

6. The system according to claim 5 , wherein the predetermined user action is drag-and-drop action of the preview.

7. The system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
program instructions, stored on the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by the one or more processors via the one or more computer-readable memories, to, when at least one of the image files is to be inserted, apply at least some attribute parameters of the set of attribute parameters associated with the identified theme are applied to convert the image files.

8. The system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
program instructions, stored on the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by the one or more processors via the one or more computer-readable memories, to store a plurality of themes, wherein the identified theme identifies the theme selected by the user from the plurality of themes.

9. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the set of attribute parameters to be applied to the image files to be inserted into the document is stored in one or more files separately from the document.

10. The system according to claim 9 , wherein the separate one or more files include a definition of cascading style sheets called for the document.

11. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the preview consists of thumbnails of the image files.

12. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the set of attribute parameters include at least one of parameters of a theme color, a theme background color, a color translation, a shape transformation, a conversion to add a frame, a contrast conversion, a temperature conversion, and a color temperature conversion.

13. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the document is a multimedia structured document.

14. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the document is created in an HTML or XML format.

15. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the image files include at least one of image data, animation data, vector data, text data, and HTML data.

16. A method comprising:
at least one processor, executing program instructions stored in a storage device, identifying a theme for application to a document;
at least one processor, executing program instructions stored in the storage device, determining a set of attribute parameters associated with the identified theme;
at least one processor, executing program instructions stored in t

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Itoh Harumi
• Kanzaki Eisuke

Classifications

• G06F40/106

  Display of layout of documents; Previewing · CPC title

• G06F40/117 Primary

  Tagging; Marking up (details of markup languages G06F40/143); Designating a block; Setting of attributes (style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154) · CPC title

• G06F40/131

  Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces · CPC title

• G06T11/60 Primary

  Creating or editing images; Combining images with text · CPC title