Display Controller Message Prioritization Logic
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Solution Overview
Problem
Information processing apparatuses face challenges in effectively managing and prioritizing multiple messages displayed to users, particularly when higher-priority messages occur while lower-priority messages are already being shown, leading to potential user confusion and notification noise.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus with a display controller that prioritizes and manages messages based on their categorization and priority levels, allowing higher-priority messages to be displayed immediately or in a full-screen mode while lower-priority messages are either held or displayed in a pop-up format, ensuring that critical notifications are promptly addressed without overwhelming the user.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple messages are displayed simultaneously to ensure all events are notified, then notification completeness is improved, but user confusion and notification noise increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments messages into different priority levels (high priority and low priority) and applies different display strategies to each segment. High priority messages are displayed immediately and prominently, while low priority messages are delayed or shown in a less intrusive manner, thereby maintaining notification completeness while reducing user confusion and notification noise.
2Reliability
If higher-priority messages interrupt lower-priority messages to ensure critical notifications are noticed, then notification effectiveness is improved, but user workflow is disrupted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic display control where the display mode of a message changes based on the arrival of new messages with different priorities. When a high-priority message arrives during low-priority message display, the system dynamically switches to display the high-priority message prominently, thereby ensuring notification effectiveness while minimizing workflow disruption through adaptive behavior.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies preliminary action by preparing and queuing high-priority messages for immediate display as soon as they arrive, even if a low-priority message is currently being shown. This ensures that critical notifications are not delayed and are presented to the user without unnecessary waiting, thereby maintaining notification effectiveness while the system manages the transition to minimize workflow disruption.
3Ease of operation
If all messages are displayed with equal prominence to ensure equal attention, then message equality is improved, but critical message visibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by giving different display characteristics to messages based on their priority level. High-priority messages receive prominent display treatment (such as full-screen or modal dialogs), while low-priority messages are displayed in a less intrusive manner (such as toast notifications or corner popups). This differentiated approach ensures critical message visibility while maintaining operational simplicity through automated priority-based classification.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes a display screen and a display controller. The display screen displays a first message corresponding to a first event occurring in the information processing apparatus. The display controller controls, in a case where a second event occurs while the first message is being displayed on the display screen, a display mode of a second message corresponding to the second event, based on a relationship between the first event and the second event.