Application Folder Notification Control for Grouped Apps
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic devices lack the ability to collectively manage notifications of applications within folders, leading to inefficient and unorganized notification handling.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a display, processor, and memory that displays a folder icon, allowing users to collectively control notifications for multiple applications through a user interface, enabling various notification patterns based on time, place, or importance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If applications are organized in folders, then icon management is improved, but notification control capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The folder is transformed from a simple icon container into a multi-functional entity that simultaneously provides icon organization and collective notification control. By enabling the folder to perform both organization and notification management functions, the system resolves the contradiction between ease of operation and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification control functionality is merged with the folder structure. Instead of treating notification control as a separate function that applies to individual applications, the system combines it with the folder entity, allowing unified notification management for all applications within the folder through a single interface.
2Adaptability or versatility
If individual application notifications are controlled separately, then notification customization is improved, but operational efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a hierarchical notification control structure where folders provide collective control for groups of applications, while individual applications retain their own notification settings. This segmentation allows users to efficiently manage multiple applications by controlling them in groups through folders, thereby improving operational efficiency without sacrificing customization capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a new dimension of organization by grouping applications into folders. This creates a two-level control structure (folder level and individual application level) that allows users to manage notifications more efficiently by operating at the folder level for bulk control, while still accessing individual application settings when needed.
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AI summary
An electronic device includes a display, a memory, and a processor, and the processor displays, on the display, a folder icon that includes execution icons of a plurality of applications and, in response to a first user input selecting the folder icon, displays a user interface for collectively controlling notifications for the plurality of applications.