Desktop Application Highlighting for Peripheral Device Discovery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulty in finding applications associated with peripheral devices among numerous installed applications after connecting them to a terminal, making the process time-consuming.
Innovation Solution
A method that parses the device type of the peripheral device and highlights associated applications on the desktop by establishing a mapping relationship or association list, allowing users to quickly find and use relevant applications through intuitive display configurations such as dedicated application areas and display themes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If users manually search through numerous installed applications to find the application associated with a peripheral device, then they can eventually locate the required application, but the process becomes time-consuming and operationally complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by detecting peripheral device connections and automatically identifying associated applications before the user needs to search. The desktop environment proactively prepares and highlights relevant applications, so when users need to use a peripheral device, the corresponding application is already visible and ready for selection, eliminating the time-consuming manual search process
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies visual highlighting (color changes) to application icons that are associated with connected peripheral devices. This visual differentiation makes it immediately obvious which applications are relevant to the currently connected peripheral device, allowing users to quickly identify and select the correct application without manually searching through all installed applications
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AI summary
Provided are a desktop display method and device. After a terminal is connected to an external device, a use is enabled to conveniently find an application associated with the external device, thereby simplifying the operation of the user, and saving the time of the user. The method comprises: parsing a device type of an external device connected to a terminal; and distinctly displaying an application associated with the device type of the external device on the desktop of the terminal.