Device-Specific Recommendation Panel for Reducing User Fatigue

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face fatigue due to encountering numerous irrelevant content and applications on their diverse electronic devices, leading to a demand for a system that efficiently recommends meaningful content and applications based on the devices they possess.

Innovation Solution

A method and device for providing a recommendation panel that includes recommendation items tailored to each type of device, where a server monitors and analyzes usage information from multiple devices connected under a single account to provide contextually relevant recommendations, using an intelligence engine to infer user interests and preferences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If content is provided across multiple device types, then content availability increases, but user fatigue increases due to meaningless content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent availabilityVSAvoiduser fatigue
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments content recommendations by device type (mobile phone, tablet PC, TV, etc.), creating device-specific recommendation panels. The server divides the user's device portfolio into distinct categories and generates tailored content recommendations for each device type based on usage patterns, thereby maintaining content availability while reducing fatigue through relevance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by customizing recommendation content according to each device's specific characteristics and usage context. Different device types receive different content types and recommendation strategies - for example, mobile devices may receive news and messaging content while TVs receive video content. This localized approach ensures content meaningfulness while preserving versatility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Measurement precision

If recommendation system analyzes multiple devices, then recommendation accuracy improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecommendation accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal server architecture that handles multiple device types through a single multi-functional system. The server performs authentication, usage pattern analysis, and content recommendation across diverse devices using a unified approach. This universal design improves recommendation accuracy by leveraging cross-device data while avoiding the complexity of separate specialized systems for each device type.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The server acts as an intermediary between multiple devices and the content delivery system. It consolidates usage information from various devices, processes this data centrally to infer user interests, and generates device-specific recommendations. This intermediary approach simplifies the overall system architecture while enhancing recommendation precision through comprehensive data analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentEP3557416B1Method and device for providing recommendation panel, and method and server for providing recommendation item
Publication Date: 2022.07.06 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A method and device which provide a recommendation to a user based on the type of device are provided. The device includes: a user input which is configured to receive a user touch input, a communicator which is configured to transmit a recommendation item request including identification information of the device to a server in response to the user touch input and receive at least one recommendation item selected based on the identification information of the device from the server; a display which is configured to display a recommendation panel including the received at least one recommendation item; and a controller which is configured to control the communicator to receive the at least one recommendation item and control the display to display the recommendation panel.