US 2021/0279381 A1Published application

Computer aided systems and methods for creating custom products

AssigneeBest Apps, LLC

InventorsMichael Bowen, Payton Breck Arriaga, Linden D. Nelson

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Abstract

A computer-aided design (CAD) system enables physical articles to be customized via printing or embroidering and enables digital content to be customized and electronically shared. A CAD user interface may be generated that includes an image of a model of an article of manufacture and a customizable template. The customizable template may include user customizable design areas. One or more defined rules associated with respective customizable areas may be accessed. In response to a user selection of a default content item and a corresponding rule, content items may be automatically used to populate other template design areas and/or change a color of one or content items. Manufacturing instructions corresponding to the user customizations may be transmitted to a printing system using a file that includes location, rotation, and/or scale data.

Claims30

Dependent claims

A computer-aided design (CAD) computer system comprising:

a computing device;
a network interface;
and
a non-transitory data media configured to store instructions that when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
provide a design rule definition user interface comprising:
a conditional specification user interface comprising:
a first field configured to receive a specification of:
a first template slot and associated slot content for a first customizable template;
a second field configured to receive a specification of:
a second template slot and associated slot content specification for the first customizable template;
an operator field configured to receive an operator specification that relates the first slot and associated slot content specification with the second slot and associated slot content specification;
a consequent specification user interface comprising:
a third field configured to receive a specification of:
a third template slot and associated slot content specification for the first customizable template;
receive, via the network interface from a user device of a user, a user selection of an image of a product from an interactive catalog;
enable a representation of the product to be presented on the user device;
receive a user selection of the first customizable template;
access one or more rules associated with the first customizable template, the accessed rules defined using the design rule definition user interface;
access a data source locator associated with the first customizable template;
access data using the data source locator;
enable at least a portion of the first customizable template populated using the data accessed using the data source locator to be presented by the user device via a computer aided design user interface;
receiving a user customization of a first rendered template slot;
determining if the user customization of the first rendered template slot violates a first rule;
at least partly in response to determining that the user customization of the first rendered template slot violates the first rule, reversing the user customization of the first template slot;
receiving a user customization of a second rendered template slot;
using a second rule to modify a third rendered template slot based at least in part on the user customization of the second rendered template slot;
and
causing the first customizable template, as customized by the user, to be printed or embroidered on a physical instance of the product.

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A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:

receiving, over a network at a computer system, a first rule via a design rule definition user interface, the design rule definition user interface comprising:
a conditional specification user interface comprising:
a first field configured to receive a specification of:
a first template slot and associated slot content specification for a first customizable template;
a second field configured to receive a specification of:
a second template slot and associated slot content specification for the first customizable template;
an operator field configured to receive an operator specification that relates the first slot and associated slot content specification with the second slot and associated slot content specification;
a consequent specification user interface comprising:
a third field configured to receive a specification of:
a third template slot and associated slot content specification for the first customizable template;
wherein the first rule is associated with the first customizable template, the first rule comprising a first conditional specification and a first consequent specification;
receiving, over the network at the computer system from a user device of a user, a user selection of an image of an object;
enabling a representation of the object to be presented on the user device;
accessing at least the first rule associated with the first customizable template;
accessing a data source locator associated with the first customizable template;
accessing data using the data source locator;
enabling at least a portion of the first customizable template populated using the data accessed using the data source locator to be presented by the user device via a customization user interface;
receiving a user input with respect to a first depicted template slot via the customization user interface;
using the first rule to modify a second depicted template slot based at least in part on the user input with respect to the first depicted template slot;
and
enabling the first customizable template, as customized by the user, to be printed or embroidered on a physical instance of the object and/or for an electronic file corresponding to the object customized using the first customizable template to be electronically distributed.

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A computer system comprising:

a computing device;
a network interface;
and
a non-transitory data media configured to store instructions that when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
receive, using the network interface, a first rule via a design rule definition user interface comprising:
a conditional specification user interface comprising:
a first field configured to receive a first template slot and associated slot content specification for a first customizable template;
a second field configured to receive a second template slot and associated slot content specification for the first customizable template;
an operator field configured to receive an operator specification that relates the first slot and associated slot content specification with the second slot and associated slot content specification;
a consequent specification user interface comprising:
a third field configured to receive a third template slot and associated slot content specification for the first customizable template;
wherein the first rule is associated with the first customizable template, the first rule comprising a first conditional specification and a first consequent specification;
receive, using the network interface from a user device of a user, a user selection of an image of an object;
enable a representation of the object to be presented on the user device;
access at least the first rule associated with the first customizable template;
access a data source locator associated with the first customizable template;
access data using the data source locator;
enable at least a portion of the first customizable template to be populated using the data accessed using the data source locator;
enable at least a portion of the first customizable template populated using the data accessed using the data source locator to be presented by the user device via a customization user interface;
enable the first rule to modify a second depicted template slot based at least in part on a user input with respect to the first depicted template slot;
enable the first customizable template, as customized by the user, to be printed or embroidered on a physical instance of the object and/or for an electronic file corresponding to the object customized using the first customizable template to be electronically distributed.

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A computer implemented method, the method comprising:

receiving a first rule via a corresponding user interface, the corresponding user interface comprising:
a conditional specification user interface comprising:
a first field configured to receive a first template slot and associated slot content specification for a first customizable template;
a second field configured to receive a second template slot and associated slot content specification for the first customizable template;
an operator field configured to receive an operator specification that relates the first slot and associated slot content specification with the second slot and associated slot content specification;
a specification user interface comprising:
a third field configured to receive a third template slot and associated slot content specification for the first customizable template;
wherein the first rule is associated with the first customizable template, the first rule comprising a first conditional specification and a first consequent specification received via the specification user interface comprising the third field;
receiving a user selection of an object;
enabling a representation of the object to be presented on the user device;
accessing at least the first rule associated with the first customizable template;
accessing a data source locator associated with the first customizable template;
accessing data using the data source locator;
enabling at least a portion of the first customizable template to be populated using the data accessed using the data source locator;
enabling at least a portion of the first customizable template populated using the data accessed using the data source locator to be presented by the user device via a customization user interface;
enabling the first rule to modify a second depicted template slot based at least in part on a user input with respect to the first depicted template slot;
and
enabling the first customizable template, as customized by the user, to be printed or embroidered on a physical instance of the object and/or for an electronic file corresponding to the object customized using the first customizable template to be electronically distributed.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/185,284Filed 25 Feb 2021
Priority: 3 Mar 2020
Published: 9 Sep 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06F 30/20
Computer-aided design [CAD]: design optimisation, verification or simulation
G06F 30/12
Geometric CAD: characterised by design entry means specially adapted for CAD, e.g. graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for CAD
G06F 2111/02
Details relating to CAD techniques: cAD in a network environment, e.g. collaborative CAD or distributed simulation
G06F 2111/16
Details relating to CAD techniques: customisation or personalisation

Family

Application62/984,678Us provisional application · filed 3 Mar 2020
US 11,263,371 B2Related patent
US 2021/0279381 A1This patent

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