Electronic Device Continue-Watching Across External Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices lack a seamless continue-watching function for content across different devices, especially when a user switches between devices with the same user account.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device is configured with a communication interface, display, and processor to identify external devices with the same user account, display a user interface to inquire about content provision, and display content from the identified external device based on user input.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If content is transmitted between electronic devices, then user convenience is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic device is designed with universal functionality to both transmit and receive content from external devices using the same communication interface and processor. This multi-functionality allows the device to seamlessly switch between sending content to and receiving content from external devices, enabling the continue-watching feature without requiring separate dedicated hardware for each direction.
Solution Approach 2:
The processor acts as an intermediary that manages the content transmission and reception processes. It identifies external devices, controls the display to show relevant UI elements, and coordinates the content flow between external devices and the local device, simplifying the overall system architecture by centralizing control logic.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the electronic device identifies and manages multiple external devices, then content provision capability is improved, but information processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic device performs preliminary identification of external devices before content transmission occurs. The processor proactively detects and stores information about external devices that may provide content, so when a content transmission request is made, the device can quickly retrieve and use the pre-identified device information without requiring complex real-time discovery and negotiation processes.
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AI summary
An electronic device comprising a communication interface, a display, and a processor. The processor identifies an external electronic device storing information of a user account that is stored in the electronic device, from among at least one external electronic device enabled to communicate with the communication interface; based on a user input executing an application of the of the identified external electronic device being received, controls the display to display a UI for inquiring whether the electronic device is enabled to provide content provided through an application of the identified external electronic device. The processor, upon a user input requesting provision of content being received through the UI, controls, information related to the content received from the identified external electronic device to be displayed so that content to be provided from the identified external electronic device is displayed through the application executed in the electronic device.