Automated communication design construction system

Abstract

An automated communication design analysis and construction system includes that includes one or more intelligent communication design servers, comprising: a normalization module that converts communication content files for different recipients to normalized intermediate format files; an objects identification and quantification module that identifies text objects and image objects in the normalized intermediate format files; a cross recipient group analysis module configured to identify static global objects that are invariant between recipients, data variables, and variable global objects that vary between recipients in the normalized intermediate format files; and an intelligent communication content learning and constructing engine that can construct standard communication design files based on the static global objects, the data variables, and the variable global objects. A data storage stores the communication content files and the standard communication design files. A communication resource allocation server sends the standard communication design files to one or more product fulfillment centers.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An automated communication design analysis and construction system, comprising:
 one or more intelligent communication design servers, comprising:
 a normalization module configured to convert communication content files in different formats for different recipients to normalized intermediate format files; 
 an objects identification and quantification module configured to identify text objects and image objects in the normalized intermediate format files; 
 a zone classification module configured to automatically identify zones in the normalized intermediate format files according to the text objects, the logos, and the image objects in the normalized intermediate format files; and 
 an intelligent communication content learning and constructing engine configured to construct standard communication design files based in part on the zones in the normalized intermediate format files; 
   a data storage configured to store the communication content files and the standard communication design files; and   a communication resource allocation server configured to send the standard communication design files to one or more product fulfillment centers,   wherein physical mailing pieces to be mailed to the recipients are printed and finished based on the standard communication design files.   
     
     
         2 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 1 , wherein the data storage is configured to store a unified file structure for the normalized intermediate format files, wherein the unified file structure in part defines the zones in the normalized intermediate format files. 
     
     
         3 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 1 , wherein the intelligent communication content learning and constructing engine is configured to automatically recognize font type, font size, and font color of a text in the text objects. 
     
     
         4 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 1 , wherein the intelligent communication content learning and constructing engine is configured to automatically identify wireframes, page behaviors, and paragraph styles within the zones. 
     
     
         5 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 4 , wherein the data storage is configured to store a unified file structure for the normalized intermediate format files, wherein the unified file structure defines the wireframes, the page behaviors, and the paragraph styles for communications to different recipients. 
     
     
         6 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 1 , wherein the zone classification module is configured to classify the zones into zone types based on locations of the zones and content in the zones in the normalized intermediate format files between different recipients,
 wherein the data storage comprises a content store configured to store standard content for a zone type.   
     
     
         7 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 7 , wherein the standard content is based on branding, legal, and regulatory requirements. 
     
     
         8 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a cross recipient group analysis module configured to identify static global objects that are invariant between recipients, data variables, and variable global objects that vary between recipients in the normalized intermediate format files;   
     
     
         9 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 8 , wherein the static global objects include text, logos, and images that are common to different recipients. 
     
     
         10 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 8 , wherein the variable global objects include text, logos, and images that vary between recipients. 
     
     
         11 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 8 , wherein the data variables vary between recipients. 
     
     
         12 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 8 , wherein the intelligent communication content learning and constructing engine is configured to construct standard communication design files based on the static global objects, the data variables, and the variable global objects. 
     
     
         13 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 8 , wherein the data storage is configured to store a unified file structure for the normalized intermediate format files, wherein the unified file structure in part defines the static global objects, the data variables, and the variable global objects for communications to different recipients. 
     
     
         14 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 8 , wherein the cross recipient group analysis module is configured to automatically analyze similar zones in the normalized intermediate format files between different recipients to identify the static global objects, the data variables, and the variable global objects, wherein the similar zones have a same content type and locations in respective page layouts. 
     
     
         15 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 14 , wherein the cross recipient group analysis module is configured to identify the static global objects, the data variables, and the variable global objects based on whether content in the similar zones the normalized intermediate format files vary across recipients. 
     
     
         16 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 8 , wherein the static global objects include wireframes, page behaviors, and paragraph styles that are common to different recipients. 
     
     
         17 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 8 , wherein the variable global objects include wireframes, page behaviors, and paragraph styles that vary between recipients. 
     
     
         18 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a channel classification module configured to automatically classify the normalized intermediate format files based on communication channel types, wherein the communication channel types include physical prints, e-mails, or web form.   
     
     
         19 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a recipient matching module configured to automatically sort the normalized intermediate format files into groups each representing all communication documents for a single recipient, wherein the recipient matching module is configured to automatically match each of the groups of normalized intermediate format files to a recipient.   
     
     
         20 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 1 , wherein the cross recipient group analysis module is configured to automatically identify a common wireframe in the normalized intermediate format files between different recipients based on locations of the zones and content in the zones. 
     
     
         21 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a cross recipient group analysis module configured to automatically identify white spaces in the normalized intermediate format files using multi-class classification machine learning, wherein pre-stored content can be inserted into the white spaces.   
     
     
         22 . The automated communication design construction system of  claim 1 , wherein the different formats of the communication content files include fixed length, delimited, XML, Microsoft Excel, INDD, PDF, WORD, FONT, or JPEG.