App Icon Message Preview for Faster Notification Search

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Solution Overview

Problem

The challenge of efficiently navigating through numerous notification messages in a notification bar to find desired information is prolonged due to the increasing number of application programs on electronic devices, leading to inefficient user experience.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that allows users to preview notification messages by interacting with application icons, displaying a message preview window with targeted content from relevant notifications, and managing these messages through input operations to filter and organize them effectively.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If more application programs are installed to meet diverse user needs, then the functionality and versatility of the electronic device is improved, but the number of notification messages increases making it harder for users to find desired information

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovefunctionalityVSAvoidsearch time

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The notification bar is segmented into multiple notification message areas, each corresponding to a specific application program. Users can directly access notifications from specific apps by selecting the relevant area, rather than searching through all notifications. This segmentation reduces search time while maintaining the ability to receive notifications from multiple applications.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The notification message area acts as an intermediary between the application programs and the user. It organizes and presents notification messages in a structured manner, allowing users to quickly identify and access notifications from specific applications without needing to search through a mixed list of all notifications.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Quantity of substance

If more notification messages are displayed in the notification bar, then users can preview more information, but the time required to find the desired notification message increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenumber of notification messagesVSAvoidsearch time

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The notification bar is divided into separate notification message areas based on application programs. Each area contains only notifications from its corresponding application, allowing users to quickly locate and read notifications from specific apps without scanning through notifications from all applications. This segmentation maintains the quantity of visible notifications while significantly reducing search time.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Each notification message area is customized to display only notifications relevant to its corresponding application program. This local quality approach ensures that users see only the notifications they need from each specific app, improving search efficiency while maintaining comprehensive notification coverage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

3Ease of operation

If notification messages are organized by application program, then the organization and manageability of notifications is improved, but the complexity of the notification bar structure increases

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovemanageabilityVSAvoidstructure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The notification bar is segmented into multiple notification message areas, each corresponding to a specific application program. This segmentation improves manageability by allowing users to easily identify and access notifications from specific apps. The structure remains relatively simple as it follows a straightforward organizational pattern based on application programs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The notification bar structure is designed to be universal, accommodating multiple application programs through a standardized segmentation approach. Each notification message area follows the same basic structure and interaction pattern, making the system easy to understand and operate while maintaining the ability to organize notifications from diverse applications.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12572255B2Notification message display method and apparatus, device, readable storage medium, and chip

Publication Date: 2026.03.10 VIVO MOBILE COMM CO LTD

AI summary

This application discloses a notification message display method, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: receiving a first input performed on an application program icon, and displaying, in response to the first input, a message preview window corresponding to the application program icon. The message preview window includes a target content in at least one notification message received by the application program to which the application program icon belongs.