Patent ID: 11915200
Assignee: ZAZZLE INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method implemented in a computer collaboration platform and for manufacturing a group of customized products that share an aesthetic design, the method comprising:
receiving, by a computer processor, an indication of a particular design style from a user computer;
determining, by the computer processor, based on the indication of a particular design style, one or more functional product groups that comprise a plurality of custom products having indicia of the particular design style;
initiating, by the computer processor, a collaboration session between the user computer and one or more collaborators to cause displaying the plurality of custom products on a user device and on collaborators devices, to allow a user and the one or more collaborators to view the plurality of custom products, and to select, from the plurality of custom products, one or more particular custom products;
in response to receiving a selection of the one or more particular custom products, selected from the plurality of custom products: generating, by the computer processor, based on the one or more particular custom products, a group of customized products comprising the one or more particular custom products, each particular customized product associated with a product type of a plurality of product types, each product type of the plurality of product types associated with a manufacturing constraint of multiple manufacturing constraints, each particular customized product having shared content that all of the one or more particular custom products share;
for a particular customized product from the group of customized products:
obtaining, by the computer processor, a manufacturing method for manufacturing the particular customized product;
determining, by the computer processor, a product type of the particular customized product and a manufacturing constraint associated with the product type;
based on, at least in part, the manufacturing constraint, determining, by the computer processor, physical constraints and manufacturing instructions for manufacturing the particular customized product using the manufacturing method;
generating, by the computer processor, transformed shared content by transforming the shared content, which all of the one or more particular custom products share, to meet a specific digital standard that satisfies the physical constraints for manufacturing the particular customized product; and
storing, by the computer processor, the transformed shared content in association with the group of customized products for manufacturing the particular customized product;
based on at least the transformed shared content, automatically generating, by the computer processor, publishing manufacturing instructions;
transmitting, by the computer processor, the publishing manufacturing instructions to product customization servers in real time to cause manufacturing entities to generate the particular customized product based on the publishing manufacturing instructions.