Foldable Multi-SIM Display Interface for SIM-Specific Notifications
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Solution Overview
Problem
It is difficult for users to easily identify and manage information corresponding to multiple SIMs in electronic devices with flexible displays.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a flexible display capable of being folded or unfolded, featuring separate areas for each SIM, includes a processor that manages notifications and application screens based on the display's state, providing notifications and application execution screens in specified areas.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a flexible display with multiple SIM areas is used, then the device can provide information for multiple SIMs, but it becomes difficult for users to easily identify information corresponding to each SIM
Solution Approach 1:
The flexible display is divided into multiple distinct areas, with each area corresponding to a specific SIM card. This segmentation allows users to visually distinguish between different SIM information zones on the display, resolving the confusion that arises from having multiple SIMs in a single unified interface.
Solution Approach 2:
Each area on the flexible display is assigned specific visual characteristics or properties that correspond to its associated SIM card. This local differentiation enables users to easily identify which area belongs to which SIM, improving ease of operation while maintaining multi-SIM functionality.
2Volume of moving object
If the flexible display area corresponding to a SIM is folded, then the device can be compact, but notifications for that SIM cannot be easily accessed
Solution Approach 1:
The flexible display's ability to dynamically change between folded and unfolded states allows the device to adapt its form factor based on user needs. When unfolded, the full display area is accessible for viewing notifications; when folded, the device becomes more compact while still maintaining notification accessibility through the flexible display's adaptable surface.
Solution Approach 2:
The flexible display introduces a spatial dimension that allows notifications to be accessed not only through traditional flat interfaces but also through the three-dimensional folded structure. This dimensional flexibility enables compact storage while preserving notification accessibility when needed.
3Ease of operation
If the flexible display is unfolded to access notifications, then notifications are easily visible, but the device loses its compact form
Solution Approach 1:
The flexible display dynamically transitions between folded and unfolded states, allowing the device to switch between compact and notification-visible modes. This dynamic adaptability resolves the contradiction by enabling the device to be compact when notifications are not needed and easily accessible when they are.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic device may include: a first subscriber identity module (SIM); a second SIM; a flexible display having at least a portion which can be folded or unfolded, and including an area corresponding to the first SIM and an area corresponding to the second SIM; a communication circuit; a memory; and a processor operatively coupled, directly or indirectly, to the first SIM, the second SIM, the flexible display, the communication circuit, and the memory. The processor(s) may be configured to: receive, through the communication circuit, a notification related to the first SIM from the outside; provide the notification related to the first SIM to a designated area on the basis of a state of the flexible display when at least a portion of the area corresponding to the first SIM in the flexible display is in a folded state; and display an execution screen of an application corresponding to the notification related to the first SIM on the flexible display when the area corresponding to the first SIM is changed to an unfolded state while the notification related to the first SIM is provided.