Floating Shared Media Control for Simultaneous Content Viewing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing media stream sharing technologies lack efficient methods for users to simultaneously view their own content and shared media streams while conveniently interacting and controlling the shared interaction.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that display a first user's content in a target interface with a floating control, where a shared media stream and preset controls are integrated, allowing users to view their own content and shared interactions, including controls for managing and displaying associated information or controlling the shared interaction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If users switch between different application interfaces to view personal content and shared media streams, then they can access both types of content, but the interaction efficiency is reduced due to frequent switching operations

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinteraction efficiencyVSAvoidtime for switching operations

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the personal content display and shared media stream display into a single unified interface. The floating control component is integrated within the target interface, allowing both personal content and shared media streams to be viewed simultaneously without requiring users to switch between different application interfaces, thereby improving interaction efficiency and reducing time loss from switching operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a floating control component that operates in a layered dimension above the main interface. This floating control allows users to access and control shared media streams without leaving the current interface context, adding a spatial dimension to the interaction that eliminates the need for sequential interface switching and improves overall productivity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Ease of operation

If users view shared media stream in a separate application interface, then they can focus on shared content, but they cannot conveniently control the shared interaction while viewing personal content

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconvenience of controlling shared interactionVSAvoidinterface structure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the control functions for shared interaction directly within the floating control component that displays the shared media stream. This integration allows users to control the shared interaction conveniently while viewing both personal content in the target interface and shared media stream in the floating control, without requiring separate control interfaces or complex multi-interface coordination.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Adaptability or versatility

If the interface displays only one media stream at a time, then the interface remains simple, but users cannot simultaneously view personal content and shared media stream

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecapability to display multiple streamsVSAvoidinterface layout complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a layered interface structure where the floating control component is positioned in a spatial layer above the main target interface. This dimensional approach allows the interface to display both personal content in the target interface and shared media stream in the floating control simultaneously, enhancing adaptability without significantly increasing interface layout complexity through the use of overlapping visual layers.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by creating a specialized floating control component with distinct visual and functional properties that differs from the main interface. This localized design allows the floating control to display shared media stream with specific controls while the target interface continues to display personal content, enabling multi-stream display without requiring the entire interface to become complex.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS12535946B2Shared media stream display method comprising displaying floating control and displaying shared media stream and control in floating control, apparatus, device, and storage medium

Publication Date: 2026.01.27 BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECH CO LTD

AI summary

The embodiment of the disclosure discloses an information display method, an apparatus, a device and a storage medium. The method includes: displaying a first content corresponding to a first user in a target interface of a preset application program, displaying a floating control in the target interface, and displaying a shared media stream in the floating control, in which the shared media stream includes a media stream corresponding to a shared interaction between the first user and at least one second user; and displaying a preset control in the floating control, in which the preset control is used for at least one of the following: displaying associated information of the shared interaction between the first user and the at least one second user or controlling the shared interaction between the first user and the at least one second user.