Article Exhibition Interface Layout for Concurrent Browsing and Details

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing article browsing methods interrupt the user experience by requiring users to repeatedly navigate back and forth between article exhibition interfaces, hindering seamless switching and viewing of multiple articles.

Innovation Solution

An interaction method that utilizes a graphical user interface to display an article exhibition area with a preset size, allowing users to select target articles, and reduces the size of this area to display information on the selected articles in a separate information exhibition area, ensuring both can be viewed simultaneously without overlap.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If users click on a target article object to enter a detail display interface, then article information can be viewed in detail, but the browsing flow is interrupted and users cannot quickly switch between articles

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvearticle information completenessVSAvoidbrowsing efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The interface is segmented into multiple display regions: a first display region showing the article list and a second display region showing detailed information of selected articles. This allows simultaneous viewing of multiple articles without full navigation, resolving the contradiction between information completeness and browsing efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges the article list view and detail view into a single unified interface that can display both simultaneously. Users can view article thumbnails in the first region while seeing detailed information of selected articles in the second region, eliminating the need to switch between separate interfaces.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Adaptability or versatility

If users exit the detail display interface to browse other articles, then they can select different articles, but the browsing experience is interrupted and time is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvearticle selection flexibilityVSAvoidnavigation time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The interface prepares multiple article previews and information displays in advance within the same screen. When users click on an article, its information is immediately displayed in the second region without requiring navigation away from the article list, enabling quick switching between articles.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from a single-view interface to a multi-region interface that displays article lists and detailed information in different spatial dimensions simultaneously. This allows users to access article details without leaving the browsing context, reducing navigation time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Productivity

If the article exhibition area displays multiple articles, then users can browse different articles, but detailed information of selected articles cannot be displayed simultaneously

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebrowsing efficiencyVSAvoidarticle detail information
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The display area is divided into a first display region for showing multiple article thumbnails and a second display region for showing detailed information of selected articles. This segmentation allows simultaneous display of both article lists and detailed information without overlap or interference.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The second display region acts as an intermediary that displays detailed information of selected articles without replacing the first display region. This mediator region allows users to view article details while keeping the article list visible, maintaining browsing efficiency while providing complete information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12524801B2Interaction method, apparatus, and device and storage medium for article exhibition
Publication Date: 2026.01.13 NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided are interaction method, apparatus, and device for article exhibition and a storage medium. This method includes: displaying, on a graphical user interface provided by a terminal device, an article exhibition area of a preset size in an article exhibition interface, where the article exhibition interface is displayed on the graphical user interface, and the article exhibition area is configured to display a plurality of articles; in response to an article selecting operation input for the article exhibition area, determining, by the terminal device, a target article selected by the article selecting operation; and reducing a size of the article exhibition area in the article exhibition interface, and displaying an information exhibition area in the article exhibition interface, where the information exhibition area is configured to display first information on the target article.