Intelligent Save Operation for Online Collage Editor

• US 20110029601A1
• Filed: 08/24/2010
• Published: 02/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Interactive Memories Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Aryk Erwin Grosz, Daniel Andrew Laffoon, Daniel Thanh Schultz
• Inventors: Grosz, Aryk Erwin, Schultz, Daniel Thanh, Laffoon, Daniel Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 8,326,945 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/00 Digital computers in general details G06F1/00 – G06F13/00; Data processing equipment in general
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/24 Classification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/12 Digital output to print unit , e.g. line printer, chain printer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/387 Composing, repositioning or otherwise geometrically modifying originals

Abstract

In a server-based system for creating and editing image-based and or text-based projects, the system having access to a digital medium containing an executable graphics user interface (GUI) accessible by computer browser, a method is provided for triggering automatic page save operations and includes the steps, (a) monitoring editing activity occurring in the project editor viewport, and (b) upon detection of a loss of a page from an editor viewport and or detection of a violation of a safety measure, automatically persisting the current page data to the server.

Claims

1. In a server-based system for creating and editing image-based and or text-based projects, the system having access to a digital medium containing an executable graphics user interface (GUI) accessible by computer browser, a method for triggering automatic page save operations comprising the steps:

(a) monitoring editing activity occurring in the project editor viewport; and

(b) upon detection of a loss of a page from an editor viewport and or detection of a violation of a safety measure, automatically persisting the current page data to the server.

2. The method of claim 1 practiced over the Internet network.

3. The method of claim 1 the image-based projects include but are not limited to photo books, photo cards, photo calendars, and mouse pads.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein in step (b), a client/server communication channel is used in persisting data to the runtime server.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the client/server channel is an Action Script Message Format (AMF) framework.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein in step (b), the data is persisted to the server in the event of a pending server-crash or problem.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein in step (b), the data is persisted to the server after a given amount of time of inactivity of the interface.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein in step (b) the data is persisted to the server in the event of system maintenance on the server.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein in step (b), the data is persisted to the server in the event of a pending computer crash, or application hang on the client.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein in step (b), the data is persisted to the server in the event of breach of a threshold number of changes or edits made to a page.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein in step (b), the data is persisted at pre-configured periodic intervals.