Dynamic Lock Screen Switching for Multi-Layer Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing lock screen systems on electronic devices require users to manually unlock multiple layers to view or interact with content from underlying screens, leading to cumbersome operations and a degraded user experience.
Innovation Solution
A method where the electronic device displays a lock screen with the highest priority first, and upon triggering a preset condition, switches to another lock screen based on a predetermined sequence, allowing users to view and interact with content without unlocking each layer sequentially.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple third-party lock screens are stacked with one covering another, then privacy protection and misoperation avoidance are improved, but operation complexity increases and user experience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic lock screen switching based on preset conditions. When a lock screen's content changes (e.g., new message, music playing), the system automatically switches to display that lock screen, making the interface adaptive and context-aware rather than static. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining multiple lock screens for privacy while enabling automatic switching to reduce manual operation complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system monitors content changes on lock screens and uses this feedback to trigger automatic switching. When content on a lower-layer lock screen changes, the system detects this and automatically brings that lock screen to the foreground, creating a responsive feedback loop that eliminates the need for manual unlocking while maintaining security layers.
2Reliability
If a user must unlock lock screens one by one to view content, then security is improved, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically switching to the relevant lock screen when content changes, so that when the user needs to view content, it is already displayed. This eliminates the need for sequential unlocking while maintaining security, as the automatic switching only occurs for lock screens with content updates, not for arbitrary access.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows users to skip through multiple locked lock screens by automatically switching to the one with changed content. Instead of requiring sequential unlocking of each layer, the system rushes through the intermediate layers by detecting content changes and directly presenting the relevant lock screen, significantly reducing time consumption while maintaining security boundaries.
3Ease of operation
If the lock screen at the uppermost layer is always displayed, then ease of operation is improved, but information visibility of underlying lock screens is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts which lock screen is displayed based on content changes. Instead of always showing the uppermost lock screen, the system monitors all lock screens and automatically switches to display the one with new or changed content, ensuring information visibility while maintaining ease of operation through automatic context-aware switching.
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AI summary
A lock screen display method includes: displaying, before a predetermined rule is triggered, for a plurality of lock screens, a lock screen with a high sequence level in a predetermined sequence on a screen of a mobile phone as a lock screen; determining, after the predetermined rule is triggered, a lock screen from the plurality of lock screens; and displaying the lock screen on the screen. A user can view information on a lock screen and operate the lock screen without unlocking the lock screens one by one.