Content Package Adaptor for Gesture-Based Cross-Source Switching
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Solution Overview
Problem
The proliferation of mobile terminals has made it difficult for users to navigate through various content sources efficiently, as manual sorting is time-consuming and tedious, especially when trying to keep track of friends across social networking services, emails, and media storage sites.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that adapt a content package by allowing users to provide gesture inputs to select and display related content segments from different sources, using a processor and memory to interpret gestures and manage content relationships, enabling seamless switching between content sources and applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manual sorting is used to navigate through content from multiple sources, then users can access content from various sources, but the time required to find specific content increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a camera as an intermediary tool to capture images of content sources (such as social media feeds, email interfaces, or messaging apps). This captured image serves as a mediator between the multiple content sources and the user, allowing the user to view and navigate through content from different sources within a single unified interface rather than manually switching between applications
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple content sources into a single composite image or collage that displays content from various sources simultaneously. By merging Facebook posts, Twitter updates, emails, and messages into one visual representation, the system eliminates the need for users to manually navigate through separate applications, thereby reducing time loss while maintaining access to diverse content sources
2Ease of operation
If users manually review content across multiple applications and services, then they can keep track of friends and contacts, but the operation becomes tedious and complex
Solution Approach 1:
The camera acts as an intermediary that captures and consolidates content from multiple applications and services into a single visual display. This eliminates the need for users to manually open and review each application separately, simplifying the operation of tracking friends and contacts across different platforms
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides a universal interface that can display content from multiple different applications and services simultaneously. By making the content display system multi-functional (capable of showing Facebook, Twitter, emails, and messages in one view), it reduces operational complexity while maintaining the ability to track contacts across various services
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus may include a user interface configured to display a content package including a first content segment from a first content source. A gesture interpreter may be configured to receive a gesture input in a positional relationship to the first content segment. The apparatus may further include a content relationship manager which may be configured to determine relationships between content segments such that a content segment selector may select a second content segment relating to the first content segment from a second content source. Further, the apparatus may include a content package adaptor configured to adapt the content package to provide for display of the second content segment. In some instances the content package adaptor may adapt the content package by providing for display of a second content package, for example from a different application than an application which the first content segment is from.