Floating Window Interface for Mobile Terminal Application Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of mobile terminals often experience waiting periods while using applications, such as network car-hailing services, where they cannot monitor the progress in real time, leading to inefficiency and lost opportunities for using their devices during this time.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for displaying an application interface in a floating window on a mobile terminal, allowing users to view the progress of an application in a designated area while still accessing other applications, with the ability to drag and resize the floating window for convenience and receive notifications or responses within the window.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If the application interface is displayed in full-screen mode, then the user can access the application functionality, but the user cannot monitor the progress in real time and cannot use other applications during waiting periods
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the display into multiple independent regions: a floating window for the application interface and a remaining area for other applications or notifications. This segmentation allows the application to be displayed in a smaller, non-full-screen window, enabling users to monitor progress while using other applications simultaneously, thus resolving the contradiction between full-screen access and real-time monitoring during waiting periods
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a single full-screen display dimension to a multi-dimensional display arrangement where the application interface is placed in a floating window at a specific position, and other applications or notifications can be displayed in the remaining space. This dimensional change enables simultaneous visibility of multiple applications, allowing users to monitor progress without losing access to other functions during waiting periods
2Productivity
If the application interface is displayed in a floating window, then the user can monitor progress and use other applications simultaneously, but the application context may be lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the system detects user actions (such as opening the application from the floating window) and automatically restores the application to its previous full-screen state or updates the floating window to reflect the current application state. This feedback loop ensures that users maintain awareness of the application context while benefiting from the efficiency of simultaneous multi-application usage, thus resolving the contradiction between productivity and context retention
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AI summary
A method for displaying application interface includes: receiving a first instruction for instructing to display an interactive interface of a current application in a floating window manner; determining a first application to which an interactive interface currently displayed on a display interface of the mobile terminal belongs; and displaying a floating window on the display interface, and displaying the interactive interface of the first application in the floating window. When a response time of the first application to certain requests is longer in the process for a user to use the first application, the interactive interface of the first application is displayed in a floating window manner, such that the user can view the response of the first application at any time, and can view information other than the first application, thereby improving efficiency of using the mobile terminal and user experience.