AI Service Entry Indicator for Simpler Display Interaction

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Solution Overview

Problem

The interaction process for using AI services on electronic devices, such as mobile phones and tablets, is complex and inconvenient for users.

Innovation Solution

A display method that includes an entry indicator for invoking AI services, allowing users to interact with AI services through simple operations like tapping, touching, or sliding, and displaying overlay or full-screen interfaces for interaction, with features like recommended content display and adjustable indicators to enhance usability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If traditional AI service interaction methods are used, then AI service functionality is provided, but the interaction process becomes complex and inconvenient for users

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveAI service interaction convenienceVSAvoidInteraction process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the AI service entry function from traditional complex interaction flows and consolidates it into a dedicated entry indicator. This indicator can be accessed from multiple interfaces (home screen, lock screen, application interfaces), allowing users to invoke AI services directly without navigating through complex menus or processes, thereby simplifying the interaction while maintaining full AI service functionality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The entry indicator is designed as a universal access point that functions across multiple different interfaces and scenarios (home screen, lock screen, various applications). This multi-functional design allows the same simple indicator to provide AI service access regardless of the current interface context, reducing the need for multiple different interaction methods and simplifying the overall user experience

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Loss of information

If the entry indicator changes form to show recommended content, then user awareness of recommendations is improved, but the indicator design becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveRecommended content notificationVSAvoidIndicator design complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs color changes and visual effect changes in the entry indicator to communicate different states, particularly to notify users of recommended AI services. By using visual transformations rather than adding separate notification components, the system effectively conveys information while maintaining a relatively simple indicator structure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #32Color changes

Solution Approach 2:

The entry indicator dynamically changes its visual properties (such as displaying flowing light effects or changing from single-color to color display) based on the state of AI service recommendations. This dynamic behavior allows the indicator to convey multiple types of information through a single adaptable component, reducing the need for multiple static indicators

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentEP4682712A1Display method and electronic device
Publication Date: 2026.01.21 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

This application provides a display method and an electronic device. The method may be applied to an electronic device. A first display interface of the electronic device includes an entry indicator for invoking an AI service. The method includes: detecting a first operation on the entry indicator; and in response to the first operation, displaying a second display interface for interacting with the AI service. In the technical solution, a display interface of the electronic device may include the entry indicator for invoking the AI service. A user may perform an operation on the entry indicator to invoke a display interface for interacting with the AI service, so that the user can conveniently use the AI service on the electronic device.