System and method for concept development

• US 9,208,515 B2
• Filed: 03/08/2012
• Issued: 12/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLC (Nielsen Holdings plc)
• Original Assignee: Affinnova, Inc. (RR Donnelley & Sons Company)
• Inventors: Lamoureux, Steven Howard, Pai, Mahesh, Al-Atraqchi, Waleed Mohammed Ali, Malek, Kamal Moussa, Municio, Angel Ismael, Blanchard, Jeremy David
• Primary Examiner(s): Wathen, Brian W
• Application Number:
  US13/415,739
• Publication Number:
  US 20120232851A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,370 Days
• Field of Search: 715/247
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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: G06F 40/189 Automatic justification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0276 Advertisement creation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/04 Manufacturing
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/30 Computing systems specially adapted for manufacturing

Abstract

A computer implemented method, system, and computer program product include one or more processors providing a framework for building a visual representation of a product concept, the visual representation including one or more of a textual component and a graphical component; one or more processors receiving a designation of an element within at least one of the textual component and the graphical components as a dynamic element; one or more processors associating the dynamic element with a variant list including a plurality of element variants; one or more processors receiving a selection of a subset of the plurality of element variants from the variant list; and one or more processors generating a first instantiation of the visual representation including a combination of the subset of the plurality of element variants as the dynamic element.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method comprising:

providing, with a processor, a framework to build a visual representation of a product concept, the visual representation including at least one of a textual component or a graphical component;

designating, with the processor, an element of the at least one of the textual component or the graphical component as a dynamic element;

associating, with the processor, the dynamic element with a variant list including a plurality of element variants;

determining lengths of text of the plurality of element variants;

selecting, with the processor, a subset of the plurality of element variants from the variant list to fit within the product concept, the selecting based on the determined lengths of the text of the plurality of element variants;

adjusting a formatting of the visual representation based on the subset selected; and

generating, with the processor, a first instantiation of the visual representation including the subset of the plurality of element variants as the dynamic element.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein selecting the subset of the plurality of element variants includes receiving layout information associated with the plurality of element variants.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 2, wherein the layout information includes order information associated with the plurality of element variants.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 2, wherein the layout information includes presentation information associated with the plurality of element variants.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein the presentation information includes position information associated with the plurality of element variants.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein adjusting the formatting of the visual representation based on the subset selected includes adjusting the formatting of the visual representation based on at least one of an element variant having the longest length and an element variant having the shortest length.

17. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further including preventing interference between the plurality of element variants based on the lengths of the text.

7. A system comprising:

a memory including machine executable instructions, and a processor to execute the instructions to implement a framework for building a visual representation of a product concept, the visual representation including at least one of a textual component or a graphical component, the processor to implement the framework by;

designating an element of the at least one of the textual component or the graphical component as a dynamic element;

associating the dynamic element with a variant list including a plurality of element variants;

determining lengths of text of the plurality of element variants;

selecting a subset of the plurality of element variants from the variant list to fit within the product concept, the selection based on the determined lengths of the text of the plurality of element variants;

adjusting a formatting of the visual representation based on the subset selected; and

generating a first instantiation of the visual representation including the subset of the plurality of element variants as the dynamic element.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the processor is to receive layout information associated with the plurality of element variants.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the layout information includes order information associated with the plurality of element variants.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the layout information includes presentation information associated with the plurality of element variants.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the presentation information includes position information associated with the plurality of element variants.

18. The system of claim 7, wherein the processor is to prevent interference between the plurality of element variants based on the lengths of the text.

12. An article of manufacture including instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

providing a framework to build a visual representation of a product concept, the visual representation including at least one of a textual component or a graphical component;

designating an element of the at least one of the textual component or the graphical component as a dynamic element;

associating the dynamic element with a variant list including a plurality of element variants;

determining lengths of text of the plurality of element variants;

selecting a subset of the plurality of element variants from the variant list to fit within the product concept, the selecting based on the determined lengths of the text of the plurality of element variants;

adjusting a formatting of the visual representation based on the subset selected; and

generating a first instantiation of the visual representation including the subset of the plurality of element variants as the dynamic element.

13. The article of manufacture of claim 12, wherein selecting the subset of the plurality of element variants includes receiving layout information associated with the plurality of element variants.

14. The article of manufacture of claim 13, wherein the layout information includes order information associated with the plurality of element variants.

15. The article of manufacture of claim 13, wherein the layout information includes presentation information associated with the plurality of element variants.

16. The article of manufacture of claim 15, wherein the presentation information includes position information associated with the plurality of element variants.

19. The article of manufacture of claim 12, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the processor to prevent interference between the plurality of element variants based on the length of text.