Context-Aware Feature Recommendation in Electronic User Interfaces

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic devices struggle to recommend features that are contextually relevant to the user's needs, often failing to recognize user intention and behavior, leading to inefficient feature utilization and user experience.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device analyzes user behavior and historical data to determine an optimal domain and feature, using a machine learning model to recommend features based on current and historical contexts, and outputs recommendations in image, text, or audio modes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If existing systems provide feature recommendations to users, then users receive some feature suggestions, but the recommendations are often not contextually relevant (recommended when not needed or not recommended when needed)

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontextual relevance of feature recommendationsVSAvoidaccuracy of feature recommendation timing
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback loops by continuously monitoring user interactions with recommended features and using this information to refine future recommendations. The processor analyzes user behavior patterns and adjusts recommendation strategies based on whether users accept or ignore suggestions, thereby improving both contextual relevance and timing accuracy over time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of user context, behavior patterns, and application states before generating feature recommendations. By pre-processing user data and maintaining historical context, the system is prepared to provide accurate, timely recommendations when relevant opportunities arise, rather than reacting too late or providing irrelevant suggestions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If electronic devices have many features, then functionality increases, but users find it overwhelming and difficult to discover and learn features

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefunctionality of electronic deviceVSAvoiduser ability to discover and learn features
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and highlights only the most relevant features from the vast array of available functions based on current user context and behavior. Instead of presenting all features, the processor identifies and surfaces specific features that match the user's current needs, making the interface manageable while preserving full device functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies local quality by providing context-specific feature recommendations rather than uniform feature presentations. Different users receive different feature suggestions based on their individual usage patterns, application context, and behavior history, making the system adaptable to local user needs while maintaining overall system versatility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Reliability

If the system analyzes user behavior and historical data to determine optimal features, then recommendation accuracy improves, but computational complexity and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of feature recommendationVSAvoidcomputational processing requirements
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial action by analyzing only the most relevant portions of user behavior data and historical context necessary for making recommendations, rather than processing all available data equally. The processor prioritizes key behavioral signals and contextual factors that have the greatest impact on recommendation accuracy, reducing computational overhead while maintaining reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS12481901B2Electronic device and control method thereof
Publication Date: 2025.11.25 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory, a user interface, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to determine an optimal domain from a plurality of domains based on a current context, combine the current context and a historical context of the optimal domain to determine a combined context, determine an optimal feature from a plurality of features based on the combined context and a parameter of the optimal domain, and control the user interface to output a recommendation message for the optimal feature.