Systems and methods for collaborative editing of interactive walkthroughs of content
Assigneesalesforce.com, inc.
InventorsDaniel Everett Jemiolo, John Kucera
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Abstract
The technology disclosed supports content collaboration between any number of users and systems by constructing WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) outputs of changes proposed by the users to a shared live application or to a document such as code, text, or graphics. The technology disclosed allows authors to update consumer facing content instantaneously based on walkthrough feedback from other contributors or coauthors. Further, the authors, without requiring technical expertise of a developer, can immediately see the consequences of incorporating changes suggested by the contributing authors, based on the WYSIWYG outputs of the changes proposed by the authors.
Claims17
A method for collaborative editing of a walkthrough, comprising:
- identifying a publisher's base walkthrough of a live application, wherein the publisher's base walkthrough of the live application implements a series of activity steps that are configurable to be presented on an instruction layer that visually overlays the live application;
- implementing a flow of control among the series of activity steps to coordinate presentation of the series of activity steps on the instruction layer that overlays a display generated by the live application;
- interacting with the live application and advancing through the series of activity steps based at least in part on performance by a user in accordance with instructions presented in the series of activity steps on the instruction layer;
- creating and separately storing edited versions of the publisher's base walkthrough for each of one or more contributing authors, wherein the edited versions each propose respective edits to the series of activity steps or the flow of control among the series of activity steps;
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- presenting, to the publisher, a user interface that displays the edited versions of the publisher's base walkthrough, wherein the each of the edited versions are operable by the publisher via the user interface to advance through the respective edits to the series of activity steps or the flow of control among the series of activity steps.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code for collaborative editing of a walkthrough, the code comprising instructions executable by a processor to:
- identify a publisher's base walkthrough of a live application, wherein the publisher's base walkthrough of the live application implements a series of activity steps that are configurable to be presented on an instruction layer that visually overlays the live application;
- implement a flow of control among the series of activity steps to coordinate presentation of the series of activity steps on the instruction layer that overlays a display generated by the live application;
- interact with the live application and advance through the series of activity steps based at least in part on performance by a user in accordance with instructions presented in the series of activity steps on the instruction layer;
- create and separately store edited versions of the publisher's base walkthrough for each of one or more contributing authors, wherein the edited versions each propose respective edits to the series of activity steps or the flow of control among the series of activity steps;
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- present, to the publisher, a user interface that displays the edited versions of the publisher's base walkthrough, wherein the each of the edited versions are operable by the publisher via the user interface to advance through the respective edits to the series of activity steps or the flow of control among the series of activity steps.
An apparatus for collaborative editing of a walkthrough, comprising:
- a processor,
- memory in electronic communication with the processor;
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- instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:
- identify a publisher's base walkthrough of a live application, wherein the publisher's base walkthrough of the live application implements a series of activity steps that are configurable to be presented on an instruction layer that visually overlays the live application;
- implement a flow of control among the series of activity steps to coordinate presentation of the series of activity steps on the instruction layer that overlays a display generated by the live application;
- interact with the live application and advance through the series of activity steps based at least in part on performance by a user in accordance with instructions presented in the series of activity steps on the instruction layer;
- create and separately store edited versions of the publisher's base walkthrough for each of one or more contributing authors, wherein the edited versions each propose respective edits to the series of activity steps or the flow of control among the series of activity steps;
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- present, to the publisher, a user interface that displays the edited versions of the publisher's base walkthrough, wherein the each of the edited versions are operable by the publisher via the user interface to advance through the respective edits to the series of activity steps or the flow of control among the series of activity steps.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.