Application Convergence via Parameter Registration
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Solution Overview
Problem
The installation of numerous applications on intelligent terminals is inconvenient due to redundancy and complexity, with existing voice digital assistants like Siri being limited in their ability to call specific apps as digital assistants and not allowing user-determined app usage.
Innovation Solution
An application convergence method and apparatus that registers convergence parameters for multiple applications, allowing for the convergence of apps based on user requests, creating a new converged application with a unique interface and data format, enabling interworking between multiple apps without the need for explicit installation in the operating system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple applications are installed to provide diverse functions, then the functionality and versatility of the terminal is improved, but the complexity and inconvenience of app management increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple applications with similar functions into a single integrated application. The system automatically identifies apps that perform overlapping functions and combines them into one unified app, reducing the total number of applications while maintaining all necessary functionalities. This resolves the contradiction by providing diverse functions through integration rather than through multiple separate apps.
Solution Approach 2:
The converged application is designed to be universal, capable of performing multiple functions that were previously distributed across different applications. By creating an multi-functional app that can handle various tasks within a single interface, the system maintains versatility while simplifying app management for users.
2Ease of operation
If a voice digital assistant is built into the operating system to call applications, then the ease of operation is improved, but the adaptability and user control over specific apps is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The voice digital assistant is transformed from a static, system-built-in component into a dynamic, user-configurable tool. Users can now dynamically select which specific applications the voice assistant should be able to call or control, allowing the system to adapt to individual user preferences and needs while maintaining ease of voice-based operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms that allow users to review and adjust which applications are accessible via voice commands. This feedback loop enables users to refine their voice assistant configuration based on actual usage patterns, ensuring both ease of operation and appropriate adaptability to user requirements.
3Loss of information
If applications are converged to reduce redundancy, then the loss of information and data organization is improved, but the complexity of data integration and format unification increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces data convergence parameters as intermediary elements that facilitate the integration of data from multiple applications. These parameters act as a mediator layer that standardizes data formats and structures, enabling seamless data unification without requiring complex custom integration logic for each application pair. The convergence parameters handle the complexity of data translation and format unification automatically.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an application convergence method and apparatus. Multiple convergence parameter interfaces are provided, and multiple convergence parameters registered by an application by using the convergence parameter interfaces are received. Therefore, when a convergence operation request of a user or an apparatus for multiple applications is received, multiple convergence parameters of the multiple applications can be obtained from the multiple convergence parameter interfaces; and the multiple convergence parameters of the multiple applications are separately converged, so as to implement convergence of the multiple applications.