EFFICIENT CREATION OF DOCUMENTS

• US 20120110440A1
• Filed: 10/28/2011
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chris Rudolph, Jay Capela, Richard Cave, Roger Rosner
• Original Assignee: Chris Rudolph, Jay Capela, Richard Cave, Roger Rosner
• Inventors: Rosner, Roger, Cave, Richard, Rudolph, Chris, Capela, Jay
• Granted Patent: US 9,785,617 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/246
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a method that efficiently designs a document. The method provides the user with a selection of templates, each with a default configuration for content. The method provides the user with a selection of page designs to add to a selected template. The method adds a selected page design to a document that is based on the selected template. Some embodiments provide methods for modifying default content of template documents with default text fields. When a user selects a default text field, the method of some embodiments selects the entire default text field for editing by the user. In some embodiments, the method highlights a text field selected by the user. Also, in some embodiments, the method deletes the content of the text field when the user provides new content for the selected field. In some embodiments, the new content is text, image, or another type of content.

Claims

1-24. -24. (canceled)

25. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer program which when executed by at least one processor selects content in a document, the computer program comprising sets of instructions for:

displaying a page of the document, the page configured with a set of fields for holding content of the page;

receiving a selection of a portion of the content of a particular field of the displayed page, the selected portion less than the entirety of the content of the particular field; and

automatically selecting the entire content of the particular field of the displayed page.

26. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 25, wherein the content of the particular field is text content comprising a set of characters, wherein the selected portion of the content comprises a subset of the set of characters.

27. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 26, wherein the entire set of characters of the text content in the particular field is automatically selected when the subset of characters of the selected portion of the content is received.

28. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 25, wherein the set of instructions for automatically selecting the entire content comprises a set of instructions for expanding the selected portion of the content to include all of the content in the particular field.

29. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 25, wherein the set of instructions for automatically selecting the entire content comprises a set of instructions for highlighting all of the content of the particular field.

30. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 25, wherein the selected portion of the content is based on a click operation within the particular field that identifies the portion of the content.

31. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 25, wherein the content of the particular field is placeholder content, wherein the computer program further comprises sets of instructions for:

replacing, in response to a first operation that provides other content for the particular field, the entire content of the particular field with the content provided by the first operation;

receiving a selection of a portion of user-generated content of a second different field of the displayed page; and

replacing, in response to a second operation that provides other content for the second field, the selected portion of the user-generated content with the content provided by the second operation, wherein the content of the second field that is not the selected portion of content is not replaced.

32. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer program which when executed by at least one processor selects content in a document created from a template comprising a set of template pages preconfigured with fields and placeholder content, the computer program comprising sets of instructions for:

displaying a page of the document based on one of the preconfigured template pages of the template used to create the document, said page comprising a first field holding template-based placeholder content and a second field holding user-generated content;

receiving a selection of a portion of the content;

automatically selecting, when the portion is based on a selection of the placeholder content in the first field, the entire content of the first field; and

selecting, when the portion is based on a selection of user-generated content in the second field, only the portion of the content of the second field.

33. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 32, wherein the computer program further comprises sets of instructions for replacing, in response to an operation that provides other content for inserting in the page, the selected content of the field with the other provided content.

34. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 33, wherein the set of instructions for replacing the selected content comprises sets of instructions for:

deleting the selected content of the field; and

inserting the other content in place of the deleted content in the field.

35. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 32, wherein the template-based placeholder content of the first field is default text content.

36. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 33, wherein the other content that replaces the selected content is user-generated content.

37. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 33, wherein the other content that replaces the selected content is media content.

38. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 37, wherein the media content is provided from a media library.

39. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 37, wherein the operation that provides the media content is an operation that drags the media content from a third field of the page.

40. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 32, wherein the user-generated content of the second field is previously-inserted text content that replaced template-based placeholder text content.

41. A method for defining a template document for use by a user to create a document by adding content to the template document, the method comprising:

defining a set of default pages of the template document, each page for populating the template document with content; and

defining placeholder content of each page, the placeholder content replaceable by user-generated content; and

defining a set of fields of a particular page of the template document, each field comprising placeholder content that is replaceable by user-generated content, the entirety of the placeholder content automatically selected by a selection of a portion of the placeholder content within the field that is less than the entirety of the placeholder content within the field.

42. The method of claim 41, wherein the placeholder content of a particular field is text content comprising a set of characters, wherein the selection of the portion of the placeholder content within the field is a selection of a subset of the characters in the set of characters.

43. The method of claim 41, wherein the placeholder content of a particular field is text placeholder content that is replaceable by user-generated media content.

44. The method of claim 43, wherein defining the set of fields of the particular page comprises defining a layout size of each field, wherein the layout size of the particular field is adjusted to accommodate a size of the user-generated media content.

45. The method of claim 41, wherein the entirety of the placeholder content is highlighted when the entirety of the placeholder content is automatically selected.