Intelligent save operation for online collage editor

• US 8,326,945 B2
• Filed: 08/24/2010
• Issued: 12/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Interactive Memories Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Interactive Memories Incorporated
• Inventors: Grosz, Aryk Erwin, Laffoon, Daniel Andrew, Schultz, Daniel Thanh
• Primary Examiner(s): Bilgrami, Asghar
• Application Number:
  US12/862,166
• Publication Number:
  US 20110029601A1
• Time in Patent Office: 833 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/218
• US Class Current: 709/218
• 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. A Internet connected server providing a software application for creating and editing image-based and or text-based projects, the server having access to a remote 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 of the projects occurring in a project editor viewport of the application; and

(b) upon detection of at least one of a loss of a page from the editor viewport, pending crash of the software and detection of a violation of an editing rule of the software, automatically persisting the current page data to the server via an Action Script Message Format (AMF) framework.

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

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