Group Content Recommendation Interface With Selectable User Accounts

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic devices lack efficient methods for displaying media content recommendations based on a group of user accounts, leading to cognitive burden and unnecessary processor and battery power consumption due to redundant user inputs.

Innovation Solution

The system allows users to designate specific user accounts for content recommendations, enabling the device to display media content tailored to the selected group, thereby reducing redundant inputs and optimizing resource usage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the device displays media content recommendations for multiple user accounts, then the content recommendations become more comprehensive and personalized, but the cognitive burden on users increases and processor power consumption increases due to redundant inputs

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent recommendation personalizationVSAvoiduser cognitive burden
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments user accounts into distinct selectable entities within the user interface. Each user account is represented as a separate selectable item, allowing the system to divide the comprehensive content recommendation task into account-specific portions. This segmentation enables users to efficiently select only the relevant user accounts for which they want content recommendations, reducing cognitive burden while maintaining personalization capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If the device processes content recommendations for multiple user accounts, then the content coverage increases, but processor power consumption increases due to redundant operations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent recommendation coverageVSAvoidprocessor power consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by having users pre-select user accounts before generating content recommendations. The system stores these selections and uses them to filter and optimize processing operations. By determining the scope of user accounts in advance, the system avoids redundant processing of content for unselected accounts, thereby reducing processor power consumption while maintaining comprehensive coverage for the selected group.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Productivity

If the system generates content recommendations for all user accounts, then the recommendations are more complete, but battery power consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent recommendation completenessVSAvoidbattery power consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies partial action by generating content recommendations only for the subset of user accounts that users explicitly select, rather than processing all available user accounts. This partial processing approach maintains recommendation completeness for the relevant user group while significantly reducing battery power consumption by avoiding unnecessary processing for unselected accounts.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS20260082094A1User interfaces for displaying content recommendations for a group of users
Publication Date: 2026.03.19 APPLE INC
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AI summary

In some embodiments, an electronic device presents recommended content for a set of users in accordance with some embodiments of the disclosure. The electronic device is associated with a plurality of user accounts, including a first user account, displaying, via a display generation component, a media browsing user interface associated with the first user account. In accordance a determination that the first user account satisfies one or more criteria and in accordance with a determination that a first subset of user accounts of the plurality of user accounts associated with the electronic device has been selected for inclusion in content recommendations, the electronic device is configured to display, in the media browsing user interface, one or more representations of media content recommendations based on one or more characteristics of the first user account and the first subset of user accounts.