Automated digital catalog generation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11205207-B2
Application number	US-201815976646-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 10, 2018
Priority date	Mar 29, 2018
Publication date	Dec 21, 2021
Grant date	Dec 21, 2021

Abstract

As part of generating a digital catalog, a creative professional interacts with digital content via a user interface to specify an arrangement of the digital content in relation to each other. This is used by a digital layout creation system to generate a layout block that is to serve as a basis for digital catalog entries in the digital catalog. As part of arranging the digital content, the digital layout creation system generates metadata automatically and without user intervention in real time that specifies the arrangement of the digital content and what digital content is associated as part of that arrangement. Once a desired arrangement is achieved by the creative professional, an input is received by the digital layout creation system to create a layout block that is used as a basis to generate digital catalog entries of a digital catalog.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. In a digital catalog generation environment, a method implemented by at least one computing device, the method comprising:
receiving, by the at least one computing device, user interaction data describing visual arrangement of a plurality of digital content in relation to each other in a user interface;
generating, by the at least one computing device, metadata automatically and without user intervention based on the user interaction data, the metadata describing the visual arrangement of the plurality of digital content;
generating, by the at least one computing device, a layout block that describes the visual arrangement of the plurality of digital content as a plurality of frames containing the plurality of digital content, respectively, within the layout block based on the metadata, the layout block including links to the plurality of digital content;
receiving, by the at least one computing device, inputs identifying a respective digital content source for each frame of the plurality of frames in the layout block for a plurality of digital catalog entries;
generating, by the at least one computing device automatically and without user intervention, a digital catalog by replacing the links to the plurality of digital content specified as included in respective said frames within the layout block with links to digital content from the respective digital content source to generate a plurality of digital catalog entries; and
outputting, by the at least one computing device, the generated digital catalog as including the plurality of digital catalog entries and following the visual arrangement within the layout block.

2. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein the generating of the metadata is performed in real time as the user interface data is received.

3. The method as described in claim 2 , wherein the metadata is configured as a markup language.

4. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein the generating of the digital catalog includes automatic generation of a plurality of pages of the digital catalog using the plurality of digital catalog entries, at least one of the pages having at least two of the plurality of digital catalog entries.

5. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein the plurality of digital catalog entries are user selectable to initiate purchase of a respective good or service.

6. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein a first frame of the plurality of frames in the layout block includes said digital content as text and a second frame of the plurality of frames includes said digital content as a digital image.

7. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein the receiving of inputs identifying the respective digital content source is received in an order following a defined order in the layout block for the plurality of frames to indicate correspondence of the respective digital content source with a respective said frame of the plurality of frames.

8. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein:
the layout block includes the links to respective items of the digital content for inclusion in respective frames of the plurality of frames; and
the replacing includes replacing the links with links to the digital content from the respective digital content source.

9. The method as described in claim 1 , further comprising selecting the layout block from a plurality of layout blocks in a user interface and wherein the receiving of the inputs is performed using the selected layout block.

10. In a digital catalog generation environment, a system comprising:
a processing system; and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by the processing system, causes the processing system to perform operations including:
receiving user interaction data describing visual arrangement of a plurality of digital content in relation to each other in a user interface;
generating metadata automatically and without user intervention based on the user interaction data, the metadata describing the visual arrangement of the plurality of digital content;
generating a layout block that describes the visual arrangement of the plurality of digital content as a plurality of frames containing the plurality of digital content, respectively, within the layout block based on the metadata, the layout block including links to the plurality of digital content;
receiving inputs identifying a respective digital content source for each frame of the plurality of frames in the layout block for a plurality of digital catalog entries;
generating a digital catalog by replacing the links to the plurality of digital content specified as included in respective said frames within the layout block with links to digital content from the respective digital content source to generate a plurality of digital catalog entries; and
outputting the generated digital catalog as including the plurality of digital catalog entries and following the visual arrangement within the layout block.

11. The system as described in claim 10 , wherein the generating of the metadata is performed in real time as the user interface data is received.

12. The system as described in claim 11 , wherein the metadata is configured as a markup language.

13. The system as described in claim 10 , wherein the generating of the digital catalog includes automatic generation of a plurality of pages of the digital catalog using the plurality of digital catalog entries, at least one of the pages having at least two of the plurality of digital catalog entries.

14. The system as described in claim 10 , wherein the plurality of digital catalog entries are user selectable to initiate purchase of a respective good or service.

15. The system as described in claim 10 , wherein a first frame of the plurality of frames in the layout block includes said digital content as text and a second frame of the plurality of frames includes said digital content as a digital image.

16. The system as described in claim 10 , wherein the receiving of inputs identifying the respective digital content source is received in an order following a defined order in the layout block for the plurality of frames to indicate correspondence of the respective digital content source with a respective said frame of the plurality of frames.

17. The system as described in claim 10 , wherein:
the layout block includes the links to respective items of the digital content for inclusion in respective frames of the plurality of frames; and
the replacing includes replacing the links with links to the digital content from the respective digital content source.

18. The system as described in claim 10 , the operations further comprising selecting the layout block from a plurality of layout blocks in a user interface and wherein the receiving of the inputs is performed using the selected layout block.

19. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by a processing system, causes the processing system to perform operations comprising:
receiving user interaction data describing visual arrangement of a plurality of digital content in relation to each other in a user interface;
generating metadata automatically and without user intervention based on the user interaction data, the metadata describing the visual arrangement of the plurality of digital content;
generating a layout block that describes the visual arrangement of the plurality of digital content as a

Assignees

• Adobe Inc

Inventors

• Jain Sanyam
• Singh Ramnik
• Kandari Pragya
• Bhargava Gaurav
• Jain Anshul
• Agarwal Abhinav

Classifications

• G06F40/134

  Hyperlinking · CPC title

• G06Q30/0603 Primary

  Catalogue creation or management · CPC title

• G06F40/106

  Display of layout of documents; Previewing · CPC title

• G06F40/143

  Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD] · CPC title