Notification Display via Force Touch Popup

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Solution Overview

Problem

The current methods for displaying notification information on electronic devices require users to switch screens, disrupting continuity and causing inconvenience when accessing notification details.

Innovation Solution

The solution involves displaying notification information content near an icon on the current screen through a first user input, such as a force touch on a badge, allowing users to access information without switching screens, and filtering or listing notifications based on a set value to optimize display.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If the user touches the icon to obtain notification information, then the notification content can be accessed, but the current screen switches to application screen which degrades task continuity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenotification information accessibilityVSAvoidtask continuity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The notification information is displayed in a new spatial dimension by showing it in an expanded popup window overlaying the current screen, rather than navigating to a separate application screen. This dimensional change allows users to access notification details while maintaining their position in the current task context.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Loss of information

If the notification information is displayed in full detail, then the user can obtain complete information, but the display area around the icon is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenotification information completenessVSAvoiddisplay area
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The notification information is displayed in a new spatial dimension by showing it in an expanded popup window overlaying the current screen, rather than navigating to a separate application screen. This dimensional change allows users to access notification details while maintaining their position in the current task context.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

The notification information is nested within an expanded popup window structure that contains multiple layers of information. The popup window can display summary information in a compact form and expand to show detailed information, allowing complete notification content to be displayed within a limited spatial area through nested organization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

3Loss of information

If the user accesses notification information through quick panel, then notification content can be obtained, but additional operation steps are required which reduces efficiency

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenotification information accessibilityVSAvoidoperation time
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The notification information is pre-positioned and ready to be displayed directly adjacent to the notification icon on the current screen. When the user interacts with the icon, the information is immediately presented without requiring the user to first open the quick panel or navigate through additional interfaces, thus eliminating unnecessary intermediate steps.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP3477456B1Notification information display method and device
Publication Date: 2021.09.15 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure may include a display for displaying an icon and an indicator which indicates presence of notification information regarding an application corresponding to the icon; and a processor electrically connected to the display, wherein the processor may receive a first user input in at least part of a region which displays the indicator, while the icon and the indicator are displayed, execute a function corresponding to the icon if the first user input is a touch input, and control the display to display information regarding the notification information on a screen if the first user input is a force touch.