APP Unlock Interface as Information Promotion Window

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current application lock APPs are limited to locking and unlocking applications, lacking the ability to display promotional information within the APP unlock interface, thereby missing an opportunity to effectively promote information to users.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that allows a server to acquire an APP identifier, inquire about corresponding promotional information, and send it to a target terminal to be displayed within the APP unlock interface, utilizing the APP unlock interface as an information promotion window, which includes selecting the most relevant information based on user persona data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the application lock APP is used only for locking and unlocking applications, then the core security function is maintained, but the ability to display promotional information is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation display capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The application lock interface is transformed into a multi-functional component that not only performs security verification (locking/unlocking applications) but also serves as an information display channel for promotional content. The server sends promotional information to the terminal, which then displays it within the existing lock interface, enabling the interface to fulfill both security and advertising functions simultaneously.

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

2Productivity

If promotional information is displayed in the APP unlock interface, then information promotion effectiveness is improved, but the user interface complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation delivery efficiencyVSAvoidinterface complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A server acts as an intermediary between information promoters and the user's terminal device. The server receives promotional information, processes it, and sends it to the terminal for display in the unlock interface. This intermediary approach allows information delivery without requiring direct modification of the client-side interface logic, maintaining interface simplicity while enabling effective promotion.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The server pre-processes and prepares promotional information before sending it to the terminal. By performing information preparation in advance on the server side, the terminal only needs to receive and display pre-formatted content, reducing the complexity of local information processing and interface management.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Quantity of substance

If multiple pieces of promotional information are sent to the terminal, then information coverage is improved, but information selection difficulty increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation quantityVSAvoidinformation relevance assessment
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where the terminal or server analyzes user behavior, preferences, and interaction patterns to determine which promotional information is most relevant. This feedback loop allows the server to select and send only the most appropriate promotional content to each user, transforming a potentially overwhelming quantity of information into a curated, relevant subset.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP3252695B1Method, device and system for sending and receiving information
Publication Date: 2024.08.07 BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of internet, and relates to a method for sending information, a method for receiving information, a device and a system. The method includes: acquiring (202), at a server, an identifier of an APP, the APP being an application having an APP unlock interface; inquiring (203) information corresponding to the identifier of the APP, the information being information to be promoted with respect to the APP that is identified by an information promoter; and sending (204) the information to a target terminal, the information being configured to be shown in the APP unlock interface corresponding to the APP.